Prompted by Dearborn's study of the relation between work in high school and work in the university, Smith made a somewhat more intensive study of a group of students in the University of Iowa. Dearborn had investigated the academic careers of pupils from eight large and four small high schools in Wisconsin, and concluded that three-fourths of the students entering the university from these high schools would maintain throughout the university approximately the same rank as they had held in high school. When the groups were divided into upper and lower halves, about seventy per cent of those in the upper high school section were found in the upper half of the university section; about the same number of those in the lower high school half were found in the lower university half. Smith's data showed almost precisely the same figures as those of Dearborn. From the Liberal Arts class of 1910 (one hundred and sixty students) those were chosen whose records were complete in both high school and university. This gave a total of one hundred and twenty students. On the basis of their standing, as based on the grades assigned in all subjects studied, they were ranked in order for each year of high school and university. They were then separated into quintiles on the basis of these rankings, and their standing in these various quintiles observed from year to year. When the students, on the basis of their general high school average (for the four years), are distributed through their respective quintiles in the university (general average again) the results are as shown in the table on page 183. TABLE 13 SHOWING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS AND UNIVERSITY RECORDS (SMITH). _See Text for Explanation_ ------------------------------------------------ | University Average H. S. Average|---------------------------------- | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |Quint.|Quint.|Quint.|Quint.|Quint. -------------+------+------+------+------+------ 1st Quintile | 54% | 17% | 17% | 4% | 8% 2nd Quintile | 25% | 29% | 17% | 13% | 16% 3rd Quintile | 17% | 25% | 20% | 21% | 17% 4th Quintile | 0% | 25% | 25% | 33% | 17% 5th Quintile | 4% | 4% | 21% | 29% | 42% ------------------------------------------------