Iler E, Slater M
Gateway To Higher Education, New York, NY 11451, USA.
Acad Med. 1998 Nov;73(11):1169-71. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199811000-00013.
The Gateway to Higher Education is a comprehensive program that provides selected minority students from five New York public high schools with rigorous high school preparation for college and professional careers in medicine, science, engineering, and technology. In existence for over ten years, the program has begun to accumulate solid outcomes data. The authors briefly describe the Gateway program and discuss students' graduation rates, career plans, and other outcomes. They then describe the correlation they have established between students' scores on the Stanford mathematics test (a standardized test administered to all Gateway ninth-grade students) and their subsequent SAT scores. Given the correlation recently established by the Association of American Medical Colleges between SAT scores and MCAT scores, this information provides another useful--and early--predictor of the future success in medical school of underrepresented minority students.
“高等教育之门”是一项综合性项目，为来自纽约五所公立高中的少数族裔学生提供严格的高中课程，为他们在医学、科学、工程和技术领域的大学学习及职业生涯做好准备。该项目已开展十余年，现已开始积累可靠的成果数据。作者简要介绍了“高等教育之门”项目，并讨论了学生的毕业率、职业规划及其他成果。接着，他们描述了在斯坦福数学测试（对所有参与“高等教育之门”项目的九年级学生进行的标准化测试）中取得的成绩与随后的SAT成绩之间建立的相关性。鉴于美国医学院协会最近确定了SAT成绩与医学院入学考试（MCAT）成绩之间的相关性，这些信息为少数族裔学生未来在医学院取得成功提供了另一个有用且早期的预测指标。
