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Quality Matters: Assessing the Impact of Attending More Selective Institutions on College Completion Rates of Minorities
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Melguizo, Tatiana – Research in Higher Education, 2008
This paper examines the impact of attending different categories of selective institutions on students' college completion. Specifically, it explores differences in the impact that selectivity of an institution has by race and ethnicity. The analysis accounts for the impact of individual and institutional characteristics and corrects for omitted…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Universities, Colleges, Competitive Selection