Students Choosing Colleges : Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution
Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro, David Zimmerman
This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions made by students accepted to Williams College, one of the nation's most highly selective colleges and universities. We use data for the Williams classes of 2008 through 2012 to estimate a yield model. We find that--conditional on the student applying to and being accepted by Williams--applicant quality as measured by standardized tests, high school GPA and the like, the net price a particular student faces (the sticker price minus institutional financial aid), the applicant's race and geographic origin, plus the student's artistic, athletic and academic interests, are strong predictors of whether or not the student will matriculate
Year of publication: |
February 2010
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Authors: | Nurnberg, Peter |
Other Persons: | Zimmerman, David (contributor) ; Schapiro, Morton (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Hochschule | Higher education institution | Studierende | Students | Schulauswahl | School choice | Persönlichkeitspsychologie | Personality psychology |
Description of contents: |
The college choice process can be reduced to three questions
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w15772 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w15772 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462879