Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the … likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic …

We argue that once we take into account the students’ rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … universities possess private information. Ex ante mismatch occurs when revelation of this information would have changed the … student’s choice of school. This necessary condition for mismatch provides the basis for a new test. The test is implemented …