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Student Matriculation Decisions and Financial Aid.
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Tierney, Michael L. – Review of Higher Education, 1980
The effectiveness and efficiency of financial aid programs for providing equality of choice between public and private institutions are examined. (SF)
Descriptors: College Choice, College Students, Decision Making, Financial Support
State Public Policies and the Racial/Ethnic Stratification of College Access and Choice in the State of Maryland
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Perna, Laura W.; Steele, Patricia; Woda, Susan; Hibbert, Taifa – Review of Higher Education, 2005
This study uses descriptive analyses of data from multiple sources to examine changes during the 1990s in the racial/ethnic stratification of college access and choice in Maryland and to explore state public policies that may have influenced changes in the demand for and supply of higher education for students of different racial/ethnic groups…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Social Stratification, Race, Ethnic Groups
Student Characteristics and Perceptions of University Effectiveness.
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Kleeman, Gary L.; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – Review of Higher Education, 1985
A model identifying 10 domains of institutional effectiveness for students is tested in relationship to student characteristics. Implications for bringing student expectations in line with institutional performance are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Admission, College Choice
Diverse Information-Gathering Methods in the Postsecondary Decision-Making Process.
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Hamrick, Florence A.; Hossler, Don – Review of Higher Education, 1996
A survey of 297 college-bound high school seniors and parents examined techniques for gathering information about postsecondary education and institutions. Students were designated as "highly diversified" or "less diversified" searchers; background characteristics and information-gathering behaviors of each were identified. High diversification…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Bound Students, College Choice, Comparative Analysis
Understanding Differences in the Choice of College Attended: The Role of State Public Policies
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Perna, Laura W.; Titus, Marvin A. – Review of Higher Education, 2004
This study uses multilevel modeling to examine, after taking student-level predictors of enrollment into account, the effects of state public policies on the type of institution high school graduates attend. Four types of state policies (direct appropriations, tuition, financial aid, and K-12 academic preparation) influence the type of college…
Descriptors: Models, Predictor Variables, Enrollment Influences, High School Graduates
The College-Choice Process for Asian Pacific Americans: Ethnicity and SocioEconomic Class in Context
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Teranishi, Robert T.; Ceja, Miguel; Antonio, Anthony Lising; Allen, Walter Recharde; McDonough, Patricia M. – Review of Higher Education, 2004
This study examines differential college-choice behavior and outcomes among Asian Pacific American (APA) student subpopulations with the goal of examining the extent to which the Asian American population is, in fact, a homogeneous "model minority" in college destinations and decision-making processes. The results suggest that their postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Choice, Ethnicity, Student Behavior, Pacific Americans
Access, Equity, and the Privatization of College Counseling.
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McDonough, Patricia M.; And Others – Review of Higher Education, 1997
Discusses the growing phenomenon of private college counseling services (independent educational consultants, or IECs), using survey results (n=157 IECs) to document their characteristics and those of their users, and considers the implications of the privatization of college counseling for admissions, students' college choice behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, College Bound Students, College Choice
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