Can't Get Here from There: The Decision to Apply to a Selective Institution

Autor/inn/en	Griffith, Amanda L.; Rothstein, Donna S.
Institution	Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
Titel	Can't Get Here from There: The Decision to Apply to a Selective Institution
Quelle	(2007), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Low Income; Family Income; Probability; Selective Admission; Tuition; Low Income Groups; College Choice; College Bound Students; Decision Making; Longitudinal Studies; Proximity; Place of Residence; Family Influence; Institutional Characteristics; Student Characteristics; High Schools; Educational Attainment; Parents; Gender Differences; United States; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Niedriglohn; Familieneinkommen; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Bildungsselektion; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Studienortwahl; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Lebensnähe; Wohnort; High school; Oberschule; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Eltern; Geschlechterkonflikt; USA
Abstract	Students from low-income families are greatly underrepresented at selective colleges and universities in the United States. In an attempt to increase applications from low-income students, some institutions have developed programs involving increased recruitment of and more attractive financial aid packages for students from low-income families. However, relatively little research has looked at the factors that are important in the college application decision-making process, and in particular how the importance of some factors may be different for low-income students. This paper uses data from the "National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997" cohort to analyze the factors influencing students' college application decisions, with a focus on the decision to apply to a selective four-year institution. We analyze how the influence of distance from a student's home during high school to a selective college or university and average tuition levels at selective institutions located nearby vary with the a student's family income. Our results show that the further a student lives from a selective college, the less likely they are to apply to one, and this effect seems to be stronger than that of average tuition levels in the student's state. Although the effect of distance does not differ for low-income students, they are most heavily impacted due to the geographic mismatch of low-income students and selective institutions. Personal, family (in particular, parent's education) and high school characteristics also prove to be very influential when students are deciding whether or not to apply to a selective institution. Appended are: (1) Multinomial Logit Parameter Estimates for estimation of probability of applying to a Two Year, Non-Selective or Selective Four-Year college using NELS:88 sample; and (2) Multinomial Logit Parameter Estimates of probability of applying to a Two-Year, Non-Selective or Selective Four-year college using the NLSY97 sample. (Contains 6 tables and 8 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10