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You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System
In 2015, Idaho adopted the nation’s first direct admissions system and proactively admitted all high school graduates to a set of public institutions. This reimagination of the admissions process may reduce barriers to students’ enrollment and improve access across geographic and socioeconomic conte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35125626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-022-09675-x |
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description | In 2015, Idaho adopted the nation’s first direct admissions system and proactively admitted all high school graduates to a set of public institutions. This reimagination of the admissions process may reduce barriers to students’ enrollment and improve access across geographic and socioeconomic contexts by removing many human capital, informational, and financial barriers in the college search and application process. Despite a lack of evidence on the efficacy of direct admissions systems, the policy has already been proposed or implemented in four other states. Using synthetic control methods, we estimate the first causal impacts of direct admissions on institutional enrollment outcomes. We find early evidence that direct admissions increased first-time undergraduate enrollments by 4–8% (50–100 students per campus on average) and in-state levels by approximately 8–15% (80–140 students) but had minimal-to-no impacts on the enrollment of Pell-eligible students. These enrollment gains were concentrated among 2-year, open-access institutions. We discuss these findings in relation to state contexts and policy design given the emergence of literature highlighting the varied efficacy of similar college access policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-88022612022-01-31 You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System Odle, Taylor K. Delaney, Jennifer A. Res High Educ Article In 2015, Idaho adopted the nation’s first direct admissions system and proactively admitted all high school graduates to a set of public institutions. This reimagination of the admissions process may reduce barriers to students’ enrollment and improve access across geographic and socioeconomic contexts by removing many human capital, informational, and financial barriers in the college search and application process. Despite a lack of evidence on the efficacy of direct admissions systems, the policy has already been proposed or implemented in four other states. Using synthetic control methods, we estimate the first causal impacts of direct admissions on institutional enrollment outcomes. We find early evidence that direct admissions increased first-time undergraduate enrollments by 4–8% (50–100 students per campus on average) and in-state levels by approximately 8–15% (80–140 students) but had minimal-to-no impacts on the enrollment of Pell-eligible students. These enrollment gains were concentrated among 2-year, open-access institutions. We discuss these findings in relation to state contexts and policy design given the emergence of literature highlighting the varied efficacy of similar college access policies. Springer Netherlands 2022-01-31 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8802261/ /pubmed/35125626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-022-09675-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Odle, Taylor K. Delaney, Jennifer A. You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title | You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title_full | You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title_fullStr | You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title_full_unstemmed | You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title_short | You are Admitted! Early Evidence on Enrollment from Idaho’s Direct Admissions System |
title_sort | you are admitted! early evidence on enrollment from idaho’s direct admissions system |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35125626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-022-09675-x |
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