Forecasting First-Term Collegiate Success from Pre-Enrollment Information

Donald I. Price and Gregory B. Marsh

Journal for Economic Educators, 2014, vol. 14, issue 1, 17-24

Abstract: Admissions officials are asked to make decisions about individual students based upon the information that can be known prior to enrollment. In the present study we show that first-term success of previous students from a given high school can be a significant predictor of first-term success of individual students after accounting for other variables; such as standardized test scores and class standing; that are also known prior to initial enrollment.

Keywords: student retention; first-term GPA; high school quality; success adjusted student percentile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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