{"id":1980,"date":"2018-04-03T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:24:17","slug":"study-march-madness-victors-see-boost-in-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/study-march-madness-victors-see-boost-in-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: March Madness Victors See Boost in Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call it the March Madness effect.<\/p>\n

New research confirms what college admission officials have been saying for years: Impressive performances by student-athletes can spur increases in freshman applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch by Devin and Jaren Pope, two economists, has found that colleges whose men\u2019s basketball teams qualified for March Madness, the sport\u2019s championship tournament, saw a 2.4 percent average increase in the total number of applications, as measured by the number of SAT college-entrance exam results received,\u201d according to a recent article published by\u00a0The Economist<\/em>. \u201cColleges whose teams made the Final Four saw a 5.8 percent increase in applications, while colleges whose teams won the entire tournament saw a 10.9 percent increase in applications in the year after their victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Out-of-state students seem to be more responsive to the trend than in-state students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis suggests that sports teams increase their colleges\u2019 name recognition, rather than merely galvanizing high school students who are already familiar with them,\u201d according to the article.<\/p>\n

African American students are also heavily influenced by tournament results. According to the report, teams that manage to win the NCAA Men\u2019s Division I Basketball National Championship saw a 23.3 percent increase in applications from black students the following year.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the research<\/a>.<\/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":"

Call it the March Madness effect. New research confirms what college admission officials have been saying for years: Impressive performances by student-athletes can spur increases in freshman applications. \u201cResearch by Devin and Jaren Pope, two economists, has found that colleges whose men\u2019s basketball teams qualified for March Madness, the sport\u2019s championship tournament, saw a 2.4 … Continue reading Study: March Madness Victors See Boost in Applications<\/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],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","tag-march-madness"],"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-vW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}