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Improving Admission of Low-SES Students at Selective Colleges: Results From an Experimental Simulation
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Bastedo, Michael N.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Low-socioeconomic status (SES) students are underrepresented at selective colleges, but the role that admissions offices play is poorly understood. Because admissions offices often have inconsistent information on high school contexts, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether providing detailed information on high school…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Colleges, Selective Admission, Randomized Controlled Trials