Abstract
The recommendation system is adopted by almost all of the prefectures in Japan. It was criticized that written examination promoted education-consciousness and it ignored the students' various strong points. The policy-makers and supporters who promote the recommendation system say that school can select students who have individuality and students can choose the qualified school for themselves. Until the recommendation system diffused, the criteria of school choice were the prestige of the school and the students' academic record. I administered a questionnaire survey to 913 high school students. The 13 items on the motives for selecting high schools were factor-analyzed. Five factors were extracted. And one more factor whether they think their own academic score as important was added. Their factors' item score set on dependent variable, and analysis of variance was carried out. These samples were divided into the academic course and vocational course. Some of the findings were as follows. 1) As a whole, motives for selecting high schools were strongly specified by academic records. 2) Vocational course students who got high academic records tended to consider their future occupations and not to think academic records as important. Academic course students have completely reverse tendency.
