Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater in number, they were also less prepared than their predecessors. This caused a sharp deterioration in the quality of the entire higher education system, which in turn affected...

A growing body of research has begun to examine the match between student ability and university quality. Initial research focused on overmatch-where students are lower attaining than their college peers. However, more recently, attention has turned to undermatch, where students attend...

People rely on their experiences when making important decisions. In making these decisions, individuals may be significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students are assigned courses affects the choice of college...