Dahill-Brown Sara E, Witte John F, Wolfe Barbara
Wake Forest University.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
RSF. 2016 Apr;2(1):69-89. doi: 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.04.
Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a detailed, quantitative assessment of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an elite flagship public university-the type that is supposed to offer excellent opportunities to students from all backgrounds. We use an innovative measure of family income to compare applicant, admissions, and enrollment trends for low-income and minority students from 1972 to 2007. The unique aspects of this study include the more reliable measure of income and the ability to look at the full process from applications, admissions, and matriculations (demand and supply), not generally available in national datasets.
进入选择性高等院校的机会是增加了还是减少了？事实证明，评估这个问题是一项艰巨的任务，因为数据有限，尤其是关于家庭收入的数据。我们对之前的研究进行补充，并提供一个可复制的机构分析模型。本文对威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（一所精英旗舰公立大学，这类大学本应向来自所有背景的学生提供绝佳机会）的招生情况进行了详细的定量评估。我们使用一种创新的家庭收入衡量方法，比较了1972年至2007年低收入和少数族裔学生的申请、录取和入学趋势。这项研究的独特之处包括更可靠的收入衡量方法，以及能够审视从申请、录取到入学（需求和供给）的全过程，而这在全国性数据集中通常是无法获得的。
