 Uniform admissions, unequal access: Did the top 10% plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?Daniel Klasik and Kalena E. Cortes Economics of Education Review, 2022, vol. 87, issue C Abstract: The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high schools. We describe new sending patterns from high schools that did not have a history of sending students to the flagship campuses. Our analysis reveals an increase in the likelihood that high schools in non-suburban areas sent students to the flagship campuses, but ultimately little to no equity-producing changes over this 18-year period in terms of regular attendance at flagships by students who attended high schools without a previous sending history. Thus, the purported high school representation benefits of the policy may not go as far as advocates might have hoped in terms of generating equity of access to the flagship campuses in the state. Keywords: Affirmative action; College admissions policies; Racial and ethnic diversity; Geographical diversity; Top 10% plan; Top X% plans; Equity and access; College quality (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:87:y:2022:i:c:s027277572100114x DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102199 Access Statistics for this article Economics of Education Review is currently edited by E. Cohn More articles in Economics of Education Review from Elsevier |
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