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Download full textWagenaar, Theodore C. – 1987
Information on college applications, acceptances, financial aid, and attendance is presented based on base-year and first follow-up data for the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond Study of the Federal Center for Education Statistics. The focus is on changes that occurred between 1972 and 1980 in the two senior cohorts. Many…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Attendance, College Choice, Financial Aid Applicants
Manski, Charles F.; And Others – 1983
The processes of choosing a college and being accepted by a college are analyzed, based on data on nearly 23,000 seniors from more than 1,300 high schools from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972. Econometric modeling and descriptive statistics are provided on: student behavior in selecting a college, choosing school/nonschool…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Class Rank, College Admission
Adelman, Clifford – US Department of Education, 2005
This report offers a series of transcript-based portraits of traditional-age community college students. As of 2001, students under the age of 22 constituted 42 percent of all credit-seeking students in community colleges and those under the age of 24 constituted nearly three-fourths of first-time community college students. As the baby-boom echo…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Age Groups, Community Colleges, Longitudinal Studies
Gardner, John A. – 1987
Factors affecting access to postsecondary education for college-age youth were studied, with emphasis on personal characteristics and institutional policies that influence educational aspirations and postsecondary enrollments. Data were primarily derived from two databases: the High School and Beyond Study and the National Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences
PDF pending restorationWagner, Alan P.; Tabler, Kenneth A. – 1977
Examined are: the major sources of federal financial aid to students in their first year of postsecondary education in the academic year 1972-73; the distribution of federal aid that students may get either in addition to or instead of federal aid. Data come from a sample of 10,189 respondents who participated in the first followup survey of the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Students
Tenison, Laurence J. – 1974
The National Longitudinal Study (NLS) of the High School Class of 1972 collected data on the attributes of students attending postsecondary institutions. The NLS also collected the names of any postsecondary institutions this cohort of students attended and/or applied to during the first two years after high school. In order to provide a link…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Colleges
