The Full Extent of Student-College Academic Undermatch
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...(2008), Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson (2009), and Smith et al. (2013), that consider students well matched at the best colleges to which they are likely to be admitted and undermatched at all lower-quality colleges....
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...(2008), Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson (2009), and Smith et al. (2013), that consider students well matched at the best colleges to which they are likely to be admitted and undermatched at all lower-quality colleges. For example, applyingRoderick et al.’s (2008)definitionof studentswellmatched tocolleges in the top tier (mostorhighlycompetitive) in theBarron’s rankings to national data implies nearly twice as many matched students as available slots at those colleges....
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...2 Smith et al. (2013) do find changes in the extent of mismatch across cohorts using their measure of mismatch applied to different data sets....
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...This is not the case with the other measures in the literature, such as Roderick et al. (2008), Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson (2009), and Smith et al. (2013), that consider students well matched at the best colleges to which they are likely to be admitted and undermatched at all lower-quality…...
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...…andNLSY97 cohorts.2 In much of the following analysis, we categorize students as overmatched or undermatched for their college if their percentile 2 Smith et al. (2013) do find changes in the extent of mismatch across cohorts using their measure of mismatch applied to different data…...
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