{"id":1199,"date":"2017-07-26T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:00:06","slug":"free-actsat-exams-boost-college-enrollment-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/07\/26\/free-actsat-exams-boost-college-enrollment-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Free ACT\/SAT Exams Boost College Enrollment Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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College enrollment rates increase when high schools cover the cost of college entrance exams, new research suggests.<\/p>\n

The finding \u2014 published by Education Finance and Policy<\/em><\/a> \u2014 is based on a study of six classes of high school juniors who attended Michigan schools from 2003-04 to 2007-08. The state has required teens to take a college entrance exam since 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, the policy increased the probability that students would enroll in college by about 2 percent,\u201d according to an Education Week<\/em> article about the new research<\/a>. \u201cStudents at schools with higher poverty rates increased their college enrollment rates by 6 percent, and those students who had a low to middling probability of taking the ACT before the policy took effect saw their rates improve by 5 percent afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Researcher Joshua Hyman said the study shows that the ACT and SAT serve as \u201ca gateway to four-year colleges,\u201d especially for students who may not otherwise consider postsecondary education a possibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI show that for every ten poor students taking a college entrance exam and scoring college-ready, there are an additional five poor students who do not take the test but who would score college-ready if they did,\u201d Hyman told Chalkbeat<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite the findings, the study notes that providing free access to college admission exams is \u201cfar from a cure-all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere remains a large supply of disadvantaged students who are high-achieving and not on the path to enrolling at a four-year college,\u201d the study notes<\/a>. \u201cResearchers and policy makers are still faced with the important question of which policies can further stem the tide of rising inequality in educational attainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College enrollment rates increase when high schools cover the cost of college entrance exams, new research suggests. The finding \u2014 published by Education Finance and Policy \u2014 is based on a study of six classes of high school juniors who attended Michigan schools from 2003-04 to 2007-08. The state has required teens to take a … Continue reading Free ACT\/SAT Exams Boost College Enrollment Rates<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","category-standardized-testing"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}