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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Policy Anal Manage. 2009 Nov 30;29(1):84–110. doi: 10.1002/pam.20480
a. Marginal Effects of Control variables on Flagship Enrollment With & Without Class Rank and Top 10 Percent Status
All Seniors (n=4939)
Hispanics (n=1804)
Class Rank Variables &
Top 10 Percent Status
Included
YES NO YES NO


Control Variables
Race/Ethnicity
  Black 0.01 (.041) 0.02 (.024)
  Hispanic −0.03 (.032) 0.02 (.019)
  Asian 0.15 (.042)*** 0.14 (.032)***
  Other/Missing −0.05 (.085) −0.03 (.044)
Parental Education
  Less Than High School −0.02 (.050) 0.00 (.030) −0.05 (.053) −0.01 (.021)
  Some College 0.04 (.037) 0.02 (.022) −0.03 (.057) −0.01 (.021)
  College and Higher 0.07 (.035)* 0.04 (.021) 0.01 (.066) 0.00 (.025)
  Don’t Know/Missing 0.02 (.053) 0.02 (.031) −0.01 (.082) 0.00 (.031)
Home Ownership
  Rent −0.12 (.036)** −0.06 (.018)** −0.12 (.058) −0.05 (.018)*
  Don’t Know/Missing 0.03 (.048) 0.01 (.028) 0.09 (.098) 0.03 (.039)
First Thought About College Going
  Middle High School −0.05 (.038) −0.03 (.020) −0.06 (.056) −0.03 (.017)
  High School −0.17 (.037)*** −0.11 (.014)*** −0.08 (.052) −0.04 (.016)
  Don’t Know/Missing −0.04 (.046) −0.04 (.022) −0.11 (.072) −0.05 (.017)
Test Information
  Test Not Taken −0.16 (.037)*** −0.12 (.012)*** −0.05 (.058) −0.05 (.013)**
  Test Scores 0.0007 (.0001)*** 0.0007 (.0001)*** 0.0006 (.0002)*** 0.0004 (.0001)***
b. Marginal Effects of Control variables on Flagship Enrollment With & Without Class Rank Variables, Top 10 Percent Status
Students from Predominately
Minority High Schools (n=1838)
Students from Typical High Schools
(n=2149)
Class Rank Variables &
Top 10 Percent Status
Included
YES NO YES NO


Control Variables
Race/Ethnicity
  Black −0.04 (.075) −0.00 (.032) 0.03 (.075) −0.00 (.036)
  Hispanic −0.09 (.078) 0.00 (.030) 0.02 (.055) 0.02 (.029)
  Asian 0.09 (.092) 0.11 (.059)* 0.21 (.060)*** 0.18 (.046)***
  Other/Missing -- -- -- -- 0.05 (.155) −0.01 (.067)
Parental Education
  Less Than High School −0.02 (.067) 0.00 (.028) −0.02 (.091) −0.00 (.046)
  Some College 0.07 (.068) 0.03 (.030) 0.09 (.063) 0.05 (.035)
  College and Higher 0.02 (.066) 0.00 (.026) 0.09 (.057) 0.06 (.031)
  Don’t Know/Missing 0.06 (.091) 0.02 (.037) 0.03 (.090) 0.03 (.049)
Home Ownership
  Rent −0.03 (.056) −0.02 (.021) −0.14 (.058)* −0.07 (.024)*
  Don’t Know/Missing 0.06 (.088) 0.01 (.034) −0.01 (.085) −0.03 (.038)
First Thought About College Going
  Middle High School −0.08 (.054) −0.03 (.020) −0.05 (.065) −0.02 (.030)
  High School −0.17 (.053)* −0.07 (.014)*** −0.26 (.069)** −0.12 (.019)***
  Don’t Know/Missing −0.11 (.073) −0.05 (.021) −0.01 (.075) −0.03 (.031)
Test Information
  Test Not Taken −0.08 (.058) −0.06 (.014)*** −0.18 (.061)* −0.11 (.017)***
  Test Scores 0.0006 (.0002)*** 0.0005 (.0001)*** 0.0005 (.0002)*** 0.0006 (.0001)***

Source: THEOP Wave 1 & 2 Senior Surveys.

***

p<0.001,

**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05,

p<0.10

Note: Results reported here come from the specification with 4th order polynomials in class rank.

Source: THEOP Wave 1 & 2 Senior Surveys.

***

p<0.001,

**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05,

p<0.10

Note: Results reported here come from the specification with 4th order polynomials in class rank.