{"id":1648,"date":"2017-11-22T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2017-11-22T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T13:15:24","slug":"students-college-choices-often-match-those-of-older-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/22\/students-college-choices-often-match-those-of-older-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Students&#8217; College Choices Often Match Those of Older Siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1649\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/campusfamily1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1649 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/campusfamily1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/campusfamily1.jpg 849w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/campusfamily1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/campusfamily1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking for a way to predict where a student will ultimately enroll in college?<\/p>\n<p>Check out their family tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0272775715000722\">A\u00a0 2015 study<\/a> shows that one-fifth of younger siblings enroll at the same college as an older brother or sister. The paper, published in the <em>Economics of Education Review<\/em>, includes data from 1.6 million sibling pairs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cControlling for both the younger sibling\u2019s and the older sibling\u2019s academic skills, younger siblings make very similar college choices to older siblings,\u201d researcher Joshua S. Goodman said in an interview published in <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Even when brothers and sisters part ways, the experiences of the older sibling seem to be influential, data show. According to the report, younger siblings are 15 to 20 percentage points more likely to enroll in four-year colleges or highly selective institutions if an older sibling did.<\/p>\n<p>Siblings of the same gender, and those who are close in age and academic performance, are more likely to choose the same institution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Another-Wrinkle-in-College\/231033\/\">Read the full interview<\/a> and check out NACAC\u2019s tips to help students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/learn\/decide\/determining-the-right-fit-college\/\">select a right-fit college<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/learning\/communities\/Admitted\/default.aspx\"><strong>Admitted <\/strong><\/a>writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to predict where a student will ultimately enroll in college? Check out their family tree. A\u00a0 2015 study shows that one-fifth of younger siblings enroll at the same college as an older brother or sister. The paper, published in the Economics of Education Review, includes data from 1.6 million sibling pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NACAC","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/wpadmin\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-qA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}