Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …

the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and … influences may modify educational outcomes in desired directions. -- university attendance ; aspirations ; peers ; parents …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …

newly available administrative data from the University of Texas at Austin, we take advantage of the unique policy … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …

attended, I find that females are more likely to apply to lower-ranking schools, whereas males set a higher bar, revealing a …

semesters (Fall 1995 to Spring 2006) to model the determinants of the grade inflation rates prevailing at the University of …

success in an American-type university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We find no robust evidence that US, UK, and UAE …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … mechanism currently employed by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions, which first allocates seats in the … top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …