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The relation between community of residence and college plans of Wisconsin high school seniors is examined. With each increase in community size category, the percentage of students with college plans increases, ranging from 21.5 per cent for those from farms to 42.4 per cent for those from large cities. Intelligence and socioeconomic status explain most of the differences among girls in this sample, but other factors are needed to account completely for the residential differences in college plans of boys. Residential differences are most marked for boys in the high intelligence and socioeconomic status categories-the ones intellectually and economically most able to attend college. The failure of able rural boys, particularly farm boys, to plan on college contributes most to the observed differences, since the differences between the various urban size categories tend to vanish when intelligence and socioeconomic status are partialled out.
William H. Sewell (Sat,) studied this question.