Presents a multi-dimensional mediation model of student body composition effects that distinguishes between ability and status dimensions of composition and specifies the more proximate inter-personal and subjective mechanisms through which their consequences should operate. (Author/AM)

Describes a multivariate model of high school to college transition and college attainment. Asserts that enrollment in a high status secondary school enhanced, for males, the likelihood of enrolling in an academically select college. States that college selectivity had no effect on females' educational attainment, but seemed to increase males'…

Does where one goes to college depend upon the kind of high school attended? And, what are the consequences of attending a more or less academically selective college or university? These questions are evaluated separately for college men and women using longitudinal data from a national sample of youth who were high school sophomores in 1955. For…

Designed to explore the determinants and long-range consequences of individual mobility in the U.S., the Explorations in Equality of Opportunity Project is a longitudinal survey of 2,077 students who were tested by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as sophomores in 42 public high schools in 1955 and who were followed up by the Institute for…