A researcher wants to interview members of the junior class in a local high school that are interested in attending______________ the local university in order to investigate their attitudes concerning the university's admissions policy. Although the researcher suspects that many of the juniors are interested in attending, the researcher cannot get a list of juniors but only has the names of the three students that have expressed their interest by writing to the admissions office. What sampling procedure should the researcher use to assemble a sample of adequate size?
A) Simple random sampling
B) Referred sampling
C) Snowball sampling
D) Convenience sampling
E) Quota sampling

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Snowball sampling is appropriate here because the researcher can start with the three known students and ask them to refer other juniors who are interested in attending the university, thus expanding the sample size.

A Researcher Wants to Interview Members of the Junior Class