– The high-school mathematics curriculum a student completed was unrelated to completing a STEM major.
– They did not find a relationship between any high-school characteristic, including percent minority, and completing a STEM major.
– Completing a STEM major depends on students’ math proficiency and certain student characteristics (e.g. gender).
– ACT mathematics score, years of high-school mathematics, high-school mathematics GPA and gender were all significant predictors of the likelihood that a student graduated with an engineering or mathematics major for a “typical” high school.
– The results provide evidence that, on average, students are equally prepared for the rigorous mathematics coursework regardless of the high-school mathematics curriculum they completed.