High School Context and College Selectivity: Institutional Constraints in Educational Stratification

摘要: Does where one goes to college depend on the kind of high school attended? And what are consequences attending a more or less academically selective university? These questions evaluated separately for men and women using longitudinal data from national sample youth who were sophomores in 1955, controlling individual family background, ability, curriculum. For males, but not females, social status composition was found enhance one's prospects institution higher education. College selectivity, turn, had total salutary effects educational attainment, despite its depressant effect undergraduate grade performance academic