best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions … process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at random, offering them ten hours of individualized college advising … have influenced the choice of where the students applied to college. We estimate that students offered counseling were 7 …

the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …

, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …

This paper estimates the sensitivity of students' college application decisions to a small change in the cost of … rose substantially while the fraction sending three fell by an offsetting amount. Students simultaneously sent their scores …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that by inducing low-income students to attend more selective colleges, the policy change significantly …

High-achieving, low-income students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than upper-income students with … intervention did not increase aid: rather, students were guaranteed before application the same grant aid that they would qualify … students' college decisions …