Independent Variables: (Seniors)
selectivity - Barron’s 2001 admissions

selectivity (1 to 6 – recoded so that higher is more selective)

(Seniors) sector (private=1, public=0)

enrollment (undergraduate, in thousands)

urbanicity (from IPEDS, large city is the reference category)
  • rural
  • small town
  • large town
  • fringe1 (fringe of mid-size city)
  • mid-size (city)
  • fringe2 (fringe of large city)
2000 Carnegie Classification (Master’s is the reference category
  • Extensive (Doctoral/Research Universities)
  • Intensive (Doctoral/Research Universities)
  • Liberal Arts (BA)
  • General (BA)
  • Other Carnegie (Classifications greater than 32) on campus (proportion seniors who report living on campus or in Greek housing)
female (proportion female seniors from IPEDS)

full-time (proportion full-time seniors from IPEDS)

age (mean for seniors)

major field (proportion of seniors who self-report each; social sciences is the reference category)
  • humanities
  • math
  • preprofessional
  • multiple (fields)
race/ethnicity (proportion of seniors from IPEDS; White is the reference category)
  • Alien
  • Asian
  • Black
  • Latina/o
  • Native American
  • Unknown