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Net price calculators (NPCs) are online tools designed to increase transparency in college pricing by presenting students with individualized estimates of net prices to attend a given postsecondary institution. The federal template NPC predicts identical aid awards for similarly profiled students attending the same institution. Using the 2012…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Student Financial Aid, College Students, Computation
Grossman, Joshua; Tomkins, Sabina; Page, Lindsay C.; Goel, Sharad – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this issue, in large part due to a dearth of data. Here we present the results from analyzing 685,709 applications…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Applicants, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Avery, Christopher; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Hurwitz, Michael; Long, Bridget T.; Page, Lindsay C. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
We investigate the efficacy of text messaging campaigns to remind students about and support them with key steps in the college search, application, selection and transition process. First, in collaboration with the College Board and uAspire, both national non-profit organizations, we implemented text-message based outreach and advising to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Enrollment, College Applicants, Information Dissemination
Hurwitz, Michael; Mbekeani, Preeya P.; Nipson, Margaret M.; Page, Lindsay C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
Subtle policy adjustments can induce relatively large "ripple effects." We evaluate a College Board initiative that increased the number of free SAT score reports available to low-income students and changed the time horizon for using these score reports. Using a difference-in-differences analytic strategy, we estimate that targeted…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Low Income Students, Reports, Access to Education
Page, Lindsay C.; Lowry, Danielle; Nurshatayeva, Aizat – National College Access Network, 2017
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important application that prospective college students must complete to qualify for state and federal financial aid. In this report, the authors describe how school district FAFSA completion rates are related to district-level poverty rates across and within states. Given that students…
Descriptors: School Districts, Poverty, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid
Castleman, Benjamin L.; Page, Lindsay C.; Schooley, Korynn – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
Despite decades of policy intervention to increase college entry and success among low-income students, considerable gaps by socioeconomic status remain. To date, policymakers have overlooked the summer after high school as an important time period in students' transition to college, yet recent research documents high rates of summer attrition…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Attrition, Enrollment, Persistence
Castleman, Benjamin L.; Page, Lindsay C. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Higher education officials have long been familiar with the concept of "summer melt," where students who have paid a deposit to attend one college or university instead matriculate at a different institution, usually presumed to be of comparable quality. In previous research, drawing on longitudinal data from various urban school…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Student Attrition, College Applicants
