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 …

answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most … advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so … target share of low-income students at these schools if their student bodies were to mirror the national high …

Two studies explored the experience and performance of students at Williams College in three-person groups that were …, students in academically homogeneous groups had more positive experiences and performed better on measures of written and video … comparison research regarding the effect of exposure to superior others on one's own performance. In addition, students in single …