This paper examines the implications of college admissions criteria on students' academic and non-academic performance …-academic qualities. Comparing students admitted through each track, we find that DA students fare similarly in terms of academic … performance in university as marginal students admitted through the regular route. However, they are significantly more likely to …

centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …

This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or … students' large administrative dataset. My central finding is that, on average, universities with less specialised admission … policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA. …

I study a college-admissions model with two need-blind colleges and heterogeneous students. In a game in which colleges … worse off but make all students and the other college better off …

50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …

I study a college-admissions model with two need-blind colleges and heterogeneous students. In a game in which colleges … worse off but make all students and the other college better off …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

additionally explained trough application case developed at one partner institution. The paper also gives overview of student’s …

-cognitive skills, personality traits, and student expectations about college success. With this information we analyzed if students …, as compared to student’s performance trajectory at the end of their first year in college. Moreover, we compared student’s … preparation at entrance. We identify students performing below and above objective expectations and study noncognitive skills …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …