Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students? Academic Article

abstract

• 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 admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and promote academic overmatch by providing some students with admissions certainty. Focusing on the interaction of admissions certainty and race/ethnicity, our results support the hypothesis that a priori admissions information can vastly improve minority access to college quality by encouraging eligible students to apply to, and more importantly, enroll in more challenging institutions.

authors

• Cortes, Kalena

published proceedings

• AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW

altmetric score

• 167

author list (cited authors)

• Cortes, K. E., & Lincove, J. A.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• Cortes, Kalena E||Lincove, Jane Arnold

publication date

• January 2016

publisher

• American Economic Association  Publisher

published in

• The American Economic Review  Journal

keywords

• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1257/aer.p20161115

start page

• 348

end page

• 354

volume

• 106

issue

• 5

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1257%2Faer.p20161115