-year liberal arts school. Specifically, the study explored whether students would perform better writing about newspaper articles … students were from either the top half or bottom half of their class on academic ratings assigned at the time of admission …. Heterogeneous groups included students from both the top and bottom half of their class. The results showed that students in the top …

may increase attendance by low income students at the wealthiest colleges and universities, it is unclear how they will …

This paper was prepared as a chapter for College Decisions: How Students Actually Make Them and How They Could, edited … students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to estimate the effect of roommates …' academic characteristics on an individual's grades. The results suggest that, for two of the three schools used, students in …

survey, the Freshman survey, and phonebook data that allows us to identify college roommates - we estimate models of students … that student outcomes are, indeed, sensitive to the school they attend. Similar students attending schools that have a …

schools - determines its success in attracting students and student quality. Its position, in turn, is largely determined by … students (or, much the same thing, how much their students have to pay for a dollar's worth of educational spending). High …-subsidy schools spend the most per dollar of tuition so that 'bargain' attracts the highest quality students. To change its position …

four-year liberal arts school. Specifically, the study explored whether students in the bottom third of their class, with …

to see how much students actually paid for tuition, room, board, and fees to go to that highly selective and expensive … can answer the motivating question of the study, "Can highly able low income students reasonably aspire to go to the best … work to serve merit and equity at the same time? With income and net price data on all aided students and income data for …

package appears to be inconsequential for future donations. Students who receive small merit scholarships contribute more as … alumni than students who receive either no merit scholarship or a large merit scholarship. …