If you were interested in designing a survey to find out how college seniors feel about the usefulness of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) as a graduate admissions test, the population would be all college seniors who ______.
A) plan to attend graduate school
B) have completed the GRE
C) completed the GRE with scores high enough to apply for graduate school
D) completed the GRE and plan to attend graduate school

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The survey is designed to find out the opinions of college seniors who are planning to attend graduate school, and have completed or plan to complete the GRE as a part of their application process. Therefore, the best choice would be those who have completed the GRE and plan to attend graduate school (option D). Option A is too broad as it includes seniors who may not be interested in attending graduate school. Option B is irrelevant as the survey is focused on opinions about the usefulness of the GRE, not whether or not it was completed. Option C is too narrow as it includes only those who scored high enough to apply, excluding those who may have taken the exam but did not score high enough, despite having an opinion about its usefulness.

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