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Table 8.

Impacts of the characteristics of college entrance examinations on the satisfaction of students whose current majors are not their first choices.

Total sample (N = 3,607)		Overall satisfaction		Academic satisfaction		Nonacademic satisfaction
Admitted characteristics	The first-choice college	0.257^***	0.255^***	0.228^***	0.226^***	0.313^***	0.314^***
	The first-choice college	(0.074)	(0.074)	(0.078)	(0.078)	(0.087)	(0.087)
	Voluntary autonomy	0.065	0.064	0.037	0.036	0.103	0.104
	Voluntary autonomy	(0.057)	(0.057)	(0.060)	(0.060)	(0.065)	(0.065)
	Classified recruitment	1.072^**	1.022^**	1.288^***	1.216^**	0.404	0.452
	Classified recruitment	(0.509)	(0.509)	(0.474)	(0.474)	(0.717)	(0.716)
	Larger cross-category class	−0.123^*		−0.174^**		0.097
	Larger cross-category class	(0.070)		(0.074)		(0.081)
	Minor cross-category class		−0.098		−0.135^*		0.052
	Minor cross-category class		(0.067)		(0.071)		(0.077)
Non“Project 211”colleges (N = 1,108)		Overall satisfaction		Academic satisfaction		Nonacademic satisfaction
Admitted characteristics	The first-choice major	0.199^*	0.199^*	0.148	0.149	0.383^***	0.381^***
	The first-choice major	(0.118)	(0.118)	(0.122)	(0.122)	(0.136)	(0.136)
	Voluntary autonomy	0.164	0.164	0.145	0.147	0.221^*	0.218^*
	Voluntary autonomy	(0.108)	(0.108)	(0.113)	(0.113)	(0.125)	(0.125)
	Classified recruitment	−0.312	−0.329	0.020	−0.024	−1.479	−1.404
	Classified recruitment	(0.727)	(0.724)	(0.681)	(0.678)	(1.030)	(1.029)
	Larger cross-category class	−0.028		−0.074		0.132
	Larger cross-category class	(0.123)		(0.128)		(0.143)
	Minor cross-category class		0.015		0.007		0.038
	Minor cross-category class		(0.120)		(0.125)		(0.136)
“Project 211”colleges (N = 2,499)		Overall satisfaction		Academic satisfaction		Nonacademic satisfaction
Admitted characteristics	The first-choice college	0.171^*	0.165^*	0.146	0.139	0.151	0.153
	The first-choice college	(0.100)	(0.100)	(0.106)	(0.106)	(0.120)	(0.120)
	Voluntary autonomy	0.051	0.048	0.014	0.009	0.105	0.106
	Voluntary autonomy	(0.068)	(0.068)	(0.073)	(0.073)	(0.078)	(0.078)
	Classified recruitment	2.570^***	2.514^***	2.638^***	2.571^***	2.533^***	2.557^***
	Classified recruitment	(0.244)	(0.238)	(0.259)	(0.255)	(0.280)	(0.280)
	Larger cross-category class	−0.172^*		−0.214^**		0.065
	Larger cross-category class	(0.089)		(0.096)		(0.104)
	Minor cross-category class		−0.127		−0.161^*		0.042
	Minor cross-category class		(0.086)		(0.091)		(0.100)
Liberal arts students (N = 842)		Overall satisfaction		Academic satisfaction		Nonacademic satisfaction
Admitted characteristics	The first-choice major	0.332^*	0.330^*	0.339^*	0.337^*	0.272	0.275
	The first-choice major	(0.184)	(0.184)	(0.193)	(0.193)	(0.212)	(0.211)
	Voluntary autonomy	−0.075	−0.071	−0.146	−0.142	0.071	0.074
	Voluntary autonomy	(0.135)	(0.134)	(0.144)	(0.144)	(0.154)	(0.154)
	Classified recruitment	4.013^***	3.985^***	4.146^***	4.116^***	3.534^***	3.491^***
	Classified recruitment	(0.921)	(0.913)	(0.964)	(0.956)	(0.878)	(0.876)
	Larger cross-category class	0.157		0.177		0.357
	Larger cross-category class	(0.310)		(0.350)		(0.297)
	Minor cross-category class		−0.315^**		−0.297^*		−0.267
	Minor cross-category class		(0.151)		(0.163)		(0.170)
Science students (N = 2,765)		Overall satisfaction		Academic satisfaction		Nonacademic satisfaction
Admitted characteristics	The first-choice college	0.190^**	0.189^**	0.147^*	0.144	0.277^***	0.279^***
	The first-choice college	(0.084)	(0.084)	(0.089)	(0.089)	(0.099)	(0.099)
	Voluntary autonomy	0.065	0.064	0.041	0.040	0.099	0.101
	Voluntary autonomy	(0.064)	(0.064)	(0.068)	(0.068)	(0.073)	(0.073)
	Classified recruitment	1.120^**	1.046^*	1.363^***	1.272^**	0.347	0.351
	Classified recruitment	(0.558)	(0.557)	(0.521)	(0.522)	(0.775)	(0.770)
	Larger cross-category class	−0.149^**		−0.202^***		0.067
	Larger cross-category class	(0.074)		(0.078)		(0.086)
	Minor cross-category class		−0.057		−0.107		0.111
	Minor cross-category class		(0.078)		(0.083)		(0.089)