Academic Outcomes and Texas Top Ten Percent Law
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In this paper, I estimate the causal effect of attending a selective college on a student’s academic performance. My results differ from previous studies, because I estimate a local effect, identified only for students who enroll in a selective college but would not have been able to without the guaranteed admissions granted to them by Texas’ Top Ten Percent Law. Differing from many previous studies, I find significant negative effects of attending a selective college on first semester GPA, sixth semester GPA, and graduation probability. I interpret these results as evidence that students admitted to Texas’ selective institutions via the Top Ten Percent Law, but would not have been admitted without the Law are “mismatched.”
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