1.   The average age of entering students was fourteen, and the usual level of preparation was correspondingly low.

2.   Approximately that many entering students fail one or more placement tests that all entering students must take.

3.   Assuming that is true, they note that it could be explained either by a better education at the elite universities or by a higher quality of entering students.

4.   Graduation rates plummeted, from more than three-quarters of entering students at City College to barely half that.

5.   It also projected that colleges like Baruch and Hunter, which have the toughest admissions criteria, would still lose more than a third of their entering students.

6.   Like most of those schools, its security was in the form of a hand-held scanner used for random checks of entering students, but not at all hours.

7.   Some results of this showed up in the CUNY evaluation tests for entering students.

8.   To determine this, CUNY tests entering students in reading, writing and math.

9.   When a college sets out to increase its enrollment, the academic level of entering students usually declines.