The Full Extent of Student-College Academic Undermatch

By Jonathan Smith, M. Pender, Jessica S. Howell. 2013

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, background): “…do not attend the highest quality colleges available to them (Bowen, Chingos, and McPher-son 2009; Dillon and Smith 2013; Hoxby and Avery 2013; Smith, Pender, and Howell 2013) and that initial college choices can be altered by relatively low-cost interventions (Bettinger et al. 2012; Carrell…”
The Test-Optional Movement at America’s Selective Liberal Arts Colleges (2015, background): “…reveals that a majority of high-achieving, low-income students fail even to apply at selective colleges and are generally unaware of the admissions requirements and benefits associated with selective higher education (Belasco & Trivette, in press; Hoxby & Avery, 2012; Smith et al., 2013).”
Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality (2017, background): “(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.”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “These two factors have been found to be related to undermatching (Dillon & Smith, 2017; Smith, Pender, & Howell, 2013), in which a student enrolls in a college that is less selective than one might expect given the student’s academic background (Bowen & Bok, 1998; Rod-erick, Nagaoka, Coca, &…”
Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, result): “This concurs with a study of two, nationally-representative cohorts of high school graduates from 1992 and 2004 (Smith et al. 2013).”
Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences (2020, background): “There are also long-standing concerns about historically underrepresented students disproportionately attending less-selective colleges and universities—institutions that tend to have fewer financial resources and lower graduation rates— even though they could gain admission to moreselective, higher”