– Students from high-SEC schools are enrolled in selective colleges approximately 4 times the rate of their low-SEC counterparts.
– Students attending low-SEC schools will typically encounter a college choice organizational habitus that is less conducive to attending college, particularly a selective 4-year college, than students attending high-SEC schools.
– The effects of peer attitudes on students had the strongest mediation effect on college choice and were approximately 8 times the magnitude of the staff attitudes.
– The average student SEC at low-SEC schools is nearly 3 standard deviations lower than at high-SEC schools, and more than double the proportion of the students are from under-represented racial/ethnic groups.