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Published in final edited form as: UI J. 2023 May 31;14(1):https://www.understandinginterventionsjournal.org/article/87469-the-csulb-build-scholars-program-a-research-intensive-upper-division-program-to-broaden-and-diversify-the-behavioral-and-biomedical-research-workfor.

Table 7.

Scholars Graduate School Application and Outcomes

Academic Discipline URM Status Gender
Final
Outcomes
Scale Overall Behavioral
Sciences
Biomedical
Sciences
URM Non-
URM
Male Female
(N=152) (n=69) (n=83) (n=87) (n=65) (n=53) (n=99)
Graduate School Application N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
Applied 121 79.6 57 82.6 64 77.1 70 80.5 51 78.5 42 79.3 79 79.8
Did Not Apply 14 7.9 5 7.3 9 10.8 9 10.3 5 7.7 5 9.4 9 9.1
Subtotal 135 88.8 62 89.9 73 88.0 79 90.8 56 86.2 47 88.7 88 88.9
Missing 17 11.2 7 10.1 10 12.0 8 9.2 9 13.8 6 11.3 11 11.1
 
Graduate School Acceptance Accepted 109 71.7 55 79.7 54 65.1 63 72.4 46 70.8 35 66.0 74 74.7
Not Accepted 12 7.9 2 2.9 10 12.1 7 8.1 5 7.7 7 13.2 5 5.1
Subtotal 121 79.6 57 82.6 64 77.2 70 80.5 51 78.5 42 79.2 79 79.8
 
Master's Program Acceptance Yes 62 40.8 39 56.5 23 27.7 31 35.6 31 47.7 19 35.9 43 43.4
No 14 9.2 6 8.7 8 9.6 11 12.6 3 4.6 3 5.7 11 11.1
Subtotal 76 50.0 45 65.2 31 37.3 42 48.3 34 52.3 22 41.5 54 54.5
 
Doctoral Program Acceptance Yes 71 46.7 31 44.9 40 48.2 43 49.4 28 43.1 26 49.1 45 45.5
No 34 22.4 16 23.2 18 21.7 20 23.0 14 21.5 11 20.8 23 23.2
Subtotal 105 69.1 47 68.1 58 69.9 63 60.0 42 64.6 37 69.8 68 68.7

Note: The doctoral and master’s acceptance rates are not mutually exclusive. Some Scholars were accepted to both programs. Also, while not included in the table count, there were Scholars who were not accepted into a graduate program when they initially applied, but later re-applied and were accepted.