Using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, we examined the probability of
students attending college by taking into account their 10th- and 12th-grade
exposure to college expectations from and college-related interactions with
school staff. Our results suggest that college expectations and college-related
interactions with their school counselors, teachers, and coaches had a modest
impact on students' odds of enrolling in college, considering the large impact
of taking advanced courses and completing college admissions tests.
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