Leaks in the College Access Pipeline: Examining Summer Melt in a Large Urban School District
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Carrie Miller, University of California-Los Angeles; Meredith Phillips, University of California-Los Angeles; Caitlin Ahearn, Stanford University
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Project Citation:
Miller, Carrie, Phillips, Meredith, and Ahearn, Caitlin. Leaks in the College Access Pipeline: Examining Summer Melt in a Large Urban School District. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-09-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207081V3
Project Description
Summary:
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Some high school seniors
who plan to attend college in the fall following graduation do not enroll. This
phenomenon, known as summer melt, contributes to lower educational attainment, particularly
among low-income students. We extend the literature on summer melt in two ways.
First, we show that melt estimates can be sensitive to measurement decisions
and local context, and in particular that estimates based on student-level National
Student Clearinghouse data can overstate the extent of summer melt. Second, we
show that aspects of students’ behavior and perceptions, such as their
attendance rates, FAFSA completion, and confidence about their intended college,
predict summer melt. These results suggest ways that school staff and summer
melt interventions could potentially target additional support to
college-intending students to facilitate their successful transition to
college.
This data deposit contains all of the syntax files that are needed to replicate the results presented in the manuscript “Leaks in the College Access Pipeline: Examining Summer Melt in a Large Urban School District.” For more information, see the Read_Me file.
This data deposit contains all of the syntax files that are needed to replicate the results presented in the manuscript “Leaks in the College Access Pipeline: Examining Summer Melt in a Large Urban School District.” For more information, see the Read_Me file.
Funding Sources:
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The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation (20193515)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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summer melt;
college access;
college enrollment;
urban schools;
FAFSA
Geographic Coverage:
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United States, California, Los Angeles
Time Period(s):
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9/4/2007 – 12/31/2019
Universe:
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2019 Los Angeles Unified School District graduates who attended district-operated schools (i.e., traditional and affiliated charter).
Collection Notes:
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The underlying data are from the Los Angeles Education Research Institute (LAERI) – Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) data archive. The data are restricted use, per LAERI’s data agreement with LAUSD. For more information about accessing the data, see the Read_Me file.
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