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Improving College Choice in Centralized Admissions: Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Precise Predictions
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Xiaoyang Ye – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This paper provides the first experimental evidence of how admission outcomes in centralized systems depend on strategic college choice behaviors. Centralized college admissions simplify the application process and reduce students' informational barriers. However, such systems also reward informed and strategic college choices. In particular,…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, Educational Administration, Prediction
A National Look at the High School Counseling Office: What Is It Doing and What Role Can It Play in Facilitating Students' Paths to College?
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Radford, Alexandria Walton; Ifill, Nicole; Lew, Terry – National Association for College Admission Counseling, 2016
Between January and October of 2013, nearly 3 million Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 graduated from high school. By October of that year, just two-thirds had enrolled in college. This report uses recently released nationally representative High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) data from Spring 2012 to examine American high…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Counseling, School Counselors, Educational Counseling
The Options Handbook. Handbook Three: Counseling to Improve Student Decision-Making.
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Carlson, Mary S., Ed.; Berlet, Chip, Ed. – 1976
Specific issues in counseling are examined from the user's perspective. The book is a collection of issue papers written by students and recent graduates. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the counseling profession and discusses the controversy between educational and therapeutic counseling, the predominance of high school counselors, and the…
Descriptors: College Choice, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Counselor Role
How Do Students Choose a College?
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Change, 1986
Results of a national survey of college students concerning the relative usefulness or role of publications and individuals in choosing a college are presented and discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Counselor Role, Decision Making