College Application Behavior: Who Is Strategic? Does It Help?

Autor/in	Ayalon, Hanna
Titel	College Application Behavior: Who Is Strategic? Does It Help?
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 54 (2007) 6, S.885-905 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-006-9031-7
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Jews; Research Universities; Talent; Foreign Countries; College Applicants; Advantaged; Surveys; College Freshmen; Arabs; Disadvantaged; Ethnic Groups; Sex Fairness; College Admission; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Forschungseinrichtung; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Ausland; College applications; Studienbewerber; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Studienanfänger; Arab; Araber; Ethnie; Sexualaufklärung; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung
Abstract	The paper examines whether college application behavior assists members of privileged social groups to preserve their advantages in diversified higher education systems. The study is based on a survey conducted in Israel in 1999 on a sample of 4,061 freshmen in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education. The findings show that strategic application behavior helps less able children of academic parents to achieve the summit of higher education: studying lucrative fields of study at the research universities. Mizrachim, the disadvantaged Jewish ethnic group, are strategic when applying for lucrative fields of study, but it does not affect their actual enrollment. Strategic application behavior helps Arabs, the most disadvantaged group in Israel, increase their odds of achieving the "worst" option, studying non-lucrative fields in colleges. Talented women successfully practice strategic behavior when applying for lucrative fields of study. The effects of strategic application behavior are, thus, mixed. It helps in preserving socio-economic and ethnic inequalities, but also helps in reducing gender inequality among talented students. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10