less advantaged students. …

students from different types of backgrounds. We combine administrative and archival data from Chile with score … status. Our findings suggest a role for policies that guide students toward higher-return degrees, such as targeted loans and … better college preparation for students from low-income backgrounds. …

We analyze how admission policies affect stereotypes against students from disadvantaged groups. Many critics of …, eliminating stereotypes perversely requires a higher admission standard for disadvantaged students. If a school seeks both to … treat students equally and limit stereotypes, the optimal admission policy would still impose a higher standard on …

access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from …, students may also lack information about what they need to do academically to prepare for and successfully complete college …. Yet until recently, college aid programs have typically paid little attention to students' information constraints, and …

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 …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston's charter high schools …

indicate substantial amounts of both undermatch (high ability students at low quality colleges) and overmatch (low ability … students at high quality colleges). Student application and enrollment decisions, rather than college admission decisions … probability of mismatch. More informed students attend higher quality colleges, even when doing so involves overmatching. …