Understanding the effect of middle school students' achievement in academic subjects, future education plans, and the similarity between interests and career plans on subsequent college enrollment helps school counselors, teachers, and parents focus on how to assist students in ways that can increase college-going behavior. The goal of this study was to explore these early academic and noncognitive factors related to college enrollment. The sample for this study included 214,621 8th-grade students with academic achievement, career interest, and educational aspiration information obtained during the 2009-2010 academic school year. Measures of academic and noncognitive factors were extracted from the 8th-grade self-report student data and test scores, while college enrollment data were extracted from the National Student Clearinghouse. Analyses were conducted using statistical tests of proportions, mean differences, and logistic regression. These grade 8 data, and their corresponding results, are intended to establish a baseline from which future longitudinal data with the same measures will be compared.