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Opportunity Insights data from Chetty et al. 2023 Selective Colleges published 24 July 2023 by the NYT upshot

admit.Rd

A dataset containing college admissions rates for different socio-economic groups. Further information at Opportunity Insights

Usage

admit

Format

Data frame with 1946 observations of 57 variables:

  • super_opeid Integer, institutional ID

  • name Character, name of college or group

  • par_income_bin Numeric, parent income percentile bin

  • par_income_bin Character, bin range for parental income

  • attend Numeric, test-score-weighted attendance rate

  • stderr_attend Numeric, standard error of attendance rate

  • attend_level Numeric, denominator for attend rate

  • attend_sat Numeric, attendance rate for specific test score band based on school tier

  • stderr_attend_sat Numeric, standard error of attend_sat

  • attend_level_sat Numeric, relative attendance rate for specific test score band based on school tier

  • rel_apply Numeric, relative fraction of all standardized test takers who send test scores to a given college

  • stderr_rel_apply Numeric, standard error of rel_apply

  • rel_attend Numeric, fraction of students attending that college among all test-takers within a parent income bin, as a proportion of the mean attendance rate across all parent income bins for each college

  • rel_att_cond_app Numeric, ratio of rel_attend to rel_apply

  • rel_apply_sat Numeric, relative application rate for school-tier

  • rel_attend_sat Numeric, relative attendance rate at school-tier test band

  • stderr_rel_attend_sat Numeric, standard error of rel_attend_sat

  • rel_att_cond_app_sat Numerica, relative attendance rate for school- tier test band

  • attend_instate Numeric, test-score weighted attendance rate for in- state students matriculating from public high schools stderr_attend_instate

  • attend_level_instate Numeric, denominator for attend_instate

  • attend_instate_sat Numeric, test-score specific attendance rate for in-state students matriculating from public-schools

  • stderr_attend_instate_sat Numeric, standard error of attend_instate_sat

  • attend_level_instate_sat Numeric, denominator for attend_instate_sat

  • attend_oostate Numeric, test-score weighted attendance rate for out- of-state students matriculating from public schools

  • stderr_attend_oostate Numeric, standard error in attend_oostate

  • attend_level_oostate Numeric, denominator for attend_instate

  • attend_oostate_sat Numeric, relative out-of-state attendance rate at school-tier test band

  • stderr_attend_oostate_sat Numeric, standard error in attend_oostate_sat

  • attend_level_oostate_sat

  • rel_apply_instate

  • stderr_rel_apply_instate

  • rel_attend_instate

  • stderr_rel_attend_instate

  • rel_att_cond_app_instate

  • rel_apply_oostate

  • stderr_rel_apply_oostate

  • rel_attend_oostate

  • stderr_rel_attend_oostate

  • rel_att_cond_app_oostate

  • rel_apply_instate_sat

  • stderr_rel_apply_instate_sat

  • rel_attend_instate_sat

  • stderr_rel_attend_instate_sat

  • rel_att_cond_app_instate_sat

  • rel_apply_oostate_sat

  • stderr_rel_apply_oostate_sat

  • rel_attend_oostate_sat

  • stderr_rel_attend_oostate_sat

  • rel_att_cond_app_oostate_sat

  • public

  • flagship

  • tier

  • tier_name

  • test_band_tier

Source

Data from Opportunity Insights https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Data.csv