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The importance of differing college effects on educational and socioeconomic achievements is noted and expressed in a socioeconomic stratification model. The model specifies differing selection and recruitment into colleges, and several variables are included to represent important selection/recruitment factors: socioeconomic background, academic ability, academic performance, educational and occupational aspirations, and commitment to college attendance. The data analysis assesses college effects on educational and occupational status attainments seven years after high school graduation. These effects are estimated for a subsample of male high school graduates with some college experience (N = 1,1 98). Gross differences are observed among colleges on the achievements of their students; but when these are adjusted for prior differences in composition on important selection/recruitment factors, the initial differences are substantially reduced. These results provide support for the selection hypothesis of attainment differences among colleges.
Duane F. Alwin (Mon,) studied this question.