Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Mulhern
Keyword(s):  
College Choices

scholarly journals The relationship between siblings’ college choices: Evidence from one million SAT-taking families

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Goodman ◽  
Michael Hurwitz ◽  
Jonathan Smith ◽  
Julia Fox
Keyword(s):  
College Choices ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals “They Always Call Me an Investment”: Gendered Familism and Latino/a College Pathways

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ovink
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
College Attainment ◽  
The Past ◽  
College Going ◽  
College Choices ◽  
Gender Reversal ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In the past 20 years, Latinas have begun to outperform Latinos in high school completionand college enrollment, tracking the overall “gender reversal” in college attainment thatfavors women. Few studies have examined what factors contribute to Latinas’ increasingeducational success. This article focuses on gender differences in college-going behavioramong a cohort of 50 Latino/a college aspirants in the San Francisco East Bay Area.Through 136 longitudinal interviews, I examine trends in Latinos/as’ postsecondary pathwaysand life course decisions over a two-year period. Findings suggest evidence forgendered familism, in which gender and racial/ethnic beliefs intersect to differentiallyshape Latinos/as’ attitudes, behaviors, and college choices. Gendered familism encouragedLatinas to seek a four-year degree as a means of earning independence, whileLatinos expressed a sense of automatic autonomy that was not as strongly tied to educationaloutcomes.

The Impact of College Outreach on High Schoolers’ College Choices - Results From Over 1,000 Natural Experiments

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Jonathan Smith ◽  
Jessica Howell ◽  
Michael Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Underserved Students ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Contact Information ◽  
Search Service ◽  
College Choices ◽  
College Outreach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Racial Ethnic

We estimate the impact of one of the largest college-to-student outreach efforts in the nation, the College Board's Student Search Service. In an oversubscribed “order”, colleges receive contact information of a randomly chosen subset of PSAT and SAT Exam takers who opted into the service and meet colleges’ search criteria from a larger set of students with identical backgrounds. We find that students who receive outreach enabled by Student Search Service (“licensed”) are 23 percent (0.1 percentage points) more likely to apply to the licensing college than students with similar backgrounds who did not receive outreach. Nearly 20% of students induced to apply to a college because of the Student Search Service also enroll, increasing the probability of enrolling in the college that licensed their contact information by 22 percent (0.02 percentage points). These impacts are twice as large for traditionally underserved students. Responsiveness to college outreach is larger for racial/ethnic minorities, first generation students, and lowand moderate-income students. Despite the fact that one additional license changes the specific institution to which students send scores and enroll, we cannot detect changes to the broad types of colleges in which students ultimately enroll.

Federal Policy Efforts to Simplify College-Going: An Intervention in Community College Enrollment and Borrowing

2017 ◽  
Vol 671 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Ochs Rosinger
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
College Outcomes ◽  
College Costs ◽  
College Going ◽  
College Choices ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Informational Intervention ◽  
The Impact

Over the past decade, the federal government has made substantial efforts to simplify the college-going process and help students to evaluate college choices. These low-cost strategies aimed at improving college access and success by helping students to make informed decisions about college warrant assessment. This study examines the impact of a recent effort aimed at simplifying information that colleges provide to students about college costs, loan options, and college outcomes. Results from a quasi-experimental analysis indicate that the “informational intervention” in this study had limited influence on community college students’ enrollment and borrowing decisions. I discuss the limitations of this particular intervention and the potential impact that other related policy efforts designed to help students at various points in the college-going process may have.

The value of using early-career earnings data in the College Scorecard to guide college choices

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 101958
Author(s):  
Zachary Mabel ◽  
C.J. Libassi ◽  
Michael Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
College Choices

Unexpected Destinations

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-151
Author(s):  
Ilana M. Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
College Selection ◽  
College Degree ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Selective College ◽  
College Choices ◽  
Professional Class

This chapter argues that an upbringing of religious restraint constrains college choices, especially for professional-class kids. It does so by recalibrating their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to rarely consider a selective college despite their excellent grades in high school. As a result, religiously restrained teens—and especially those from the professional class who have the resources to make it to college—tend to undermatch in the college selection process. This is evident among men and is especially prevalent among women. Girls who grow up with religious restraint have a self-concept centered around family, service, and God. They do not aspire toward prestigious careers, which makes a degree from a selective college less valuable. Unlike less affluent teens who want to improve their class position by gaining a college degree, religiously restrained teens are content maintaining their class position by attending college close to home and reproducing traditional gender norms.

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