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Realizing Your College Potential? Impacts of College Board’s RYCP Campaign on Postsecondary Enrollment

Oded Gurantz,
Jessica Howell,
Mike Hurwitz,
Cassandra Larson,
Matea Pender,
Brooke White

The College Board sought to reduce barriers in the college application process by minimizing information aggregation costs, encouraging a broad application portfolio, and providing an impetus to start the search process. Some students were offered additional encouragements, such as text message reminders or college application fee waivers. In a randomized control trial with 785,000 low- and middle-income students in the top 50% of the PSAT and SAT distributions, we find no changes in college enrollment patterns, with the exception of a 0.02σ increase in college quality measures for African-American and Hispanic students.

Keywords
College access; randomized control trial
Education level
Post-secondary education
Topics
Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags
College readiness,
Higher education,
Race, ethnicity, and education
Download 05/2019
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/nqn3-sp29
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Gurantz, Oded, Jessica Howell, Mike Hurwitz, Cassandra Larson, Matea Pender, and Brooke White. (). Realizing Your College Potential? Impacts of College Board’s RYCP Campaign on Postsecondary Enrollment. (EdWorkingPaper: -40). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/nqn3-sp29

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