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Impact of Direct Admissions into the Miami University Farmer School of Business on Student Incentives

Bosse, Samantha Louise
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-3599
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1555452120150621

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, Economics.
Does a direct admissions policy with a secured spot for the student promote better performance than a non-direct admissions policy with a GPA requirement after two years? To answer this question, we focus on the business core that all business students take at Miami. The data spans 2003 to 2015 cohorts, with the change to a full direct admissions policy occurring in the 2012 cohort. This allows us to explore how course grades and students’ decisions of when and where to take the course differ over multiple admissions policies. The analysis shows significant changes between the policy periods overall. Most notably, the average student GPA decreases with the switch to direct admissions, after controlling for ability. The effects seem to be concentrated in Managerial Accounting and Calculus 1. These effects differ when students are broken up into high and low ability groups as well as minority and non-minority. Low ability students appear to benefit from the new policy, narrowing the gap between them and the high ability students, but minority students seem to be hurt by the new policy in that they have lower GPAs on average.
Deborah Fletcher, Ph. D (Advisor)
Austin Smith, Ph. D (Committee Member)
George Davis, Ph. D (Committee Member)
Economics; Education Policy
College Admissions Policy

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  • Bosse, S. L. (2019). Impact of Direct Admissions into the Miami University Farmer School of Business on Student Incentives [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1555452120150621

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bosse, Samantha. Impact of Direct Admissions into the Miami University Farmer School of Business on Student Incentives. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1555452120150621.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bosse, Samantha. "Impact of Direct Admissions into the Miami University Farmer School of Business on Student Incentives." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1555452120150621

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