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State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...
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The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post …-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high … schools. We provide a detailed description of changes in enrollment patterns at the flagship campuses from Texas high schools …
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Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...
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use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of …
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In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase … newly available administrative data from the University of Texas at Austin, we take advantage of the unique policy … environment provided by Texas's Top Ten Percent automatic admissions law, which has not only increased the diversity of high …
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The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in the vocational education and training (VET) track, which in many countries leads to the stigmatisation of VET courses. To tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines...
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