Real and imagined barriers to college entry: Perceptions of cost

By Eric Grodsky, Melanie T. Jones. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Finding Money on the Table: Information, Financial Aid, and Access to College (2009, background): “Recent research suggests that low-income high school students do not prepare for college because they believe a postsecondary education is expensive and unaffordable (Grodsky & Jones, 2004; Luna De La Rosa, 2006; Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2005; Tierney & Venegas, 2007).”
Socioeconomic inequality in access to “high-status” colleges : a cross-country comparison of primary and secondary effects (2015, background): “Similarly, Bowen et al. (2011) and Grodsky and Jones (2007) note that young people are quite poor at judging the relative costs and benefits of elite versus non-elite colleges, and thus that the high “sticker prices” of elite private colleges could deter disadvantaged children them from applying.”
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success (2010, background): “As a result, disadvantaged parents are less likely to feel they can predict the cost of college, although they do not necessarily make more errors in their cost estimates when they do provide them (Avery & Kane, 2004; Grodsky & Jones 2007).”
College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students: Variation by School and State Context (2009, background): “Students and parents tend to overestimate college prices (De La Rosa & Tierney, 2006; Grodsky & Jones, 2004; Horn et al., 2003; Ikenberry & Hartle, 2000), and large percentages of parents and high school students are unaware of sources of financial aid (Immerwahr, 2003; Tomás Rivera Policy…”
Running in Place: Low-Income Students and the Dynamics of Higher Education Stratification (2011, background): “For example, some researchers report that once you control for academic preparation, minority students are more likely to attend selective colleges than are nonminority students (Bowen & Bok, 1998; Grodsky & Jones, 2007).”
Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns (2019, unknown): “Students from low-income families tend to overestimate their net cost of college, suggesting they may not have a precise understanding of the financial aid for which they are eligible (Avery and Kane, 2004; Grodsky and Jones, 2007).”
Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps With a New Counseling Model? (2013, background): “…to face social and personal risks in pursuing college (Bloom, 2007), and low-SES or minority students have less information about college cost (Grodsky & Jones, 2007; Kirst & Venezia, 2004), college requirements (Kirst & Venezia, 2004), and differences in institutional types and degrees…”
Social Stratification in Higher Education (2009, background): “For example, although the degree of upward bias in estimates of tuition provided by students and their parents seems uniform across social origins (Avery & Kane, 2004; Grodsky & Jones, 2007), the effect of this bias may vary by SES.”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “…prevalent among students from the lowest-income backgrounds, likely contributing to persistent gaps in postsecondary attainment as well as undermatch by socioeconomic status (ACSFA, 2005; Grodsky & Jones, 2007; Horn, Chen, & Chapman 2003; Hoxby & Avery, 2013; Hoxby & Turner, 2013; Radford, 2013).”
Contextual Influences on Parental Involvement in College Going: Variations by Socioeconomic Class (2008, background): “As Grodsky and Jones (2004) speculate, such activities may reflect parents’ level of commitment to their children’s educational attainment.”
Creating College Opportunity: School Counselors and Their Influence on Postsecondary Enrollment (2013, background): “Several studies, for instance, reveal that low-SES students are more likely to overestimate college costs, underestimate the availability of financial aid, and exhibit poor knowledge about the academic prerequisites to college attendance (Avery and Kane 2004; Deil-Amen and Tevis 2010; Grodsky and Jo”
Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study. Statistical Analysis Report. NCES 2012-046. (2012, background): “Another important aspect of students’ decisions about and predispositions toward postsecondary enrollment is their perception of costs and access to financial aid (Grodsky and Jones 2007; Horn, Chen, and Chapman 2003; King 2006; Terenzini, Cabrera, and Bernal 2001).”
Disparities in Debt (2014, background): “Aggregate student loan debt recently hit the one trillion dollar mark, 1Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA”