Gurantz, OdedHowell, JessicaHurwitz, MichaelLarson, CassandraPender, MateaWhite, Brooke2019-12-192019-12-192020-05-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96070The College Board sought to reduce barriers in the college application process by minimizing information aggregation costs, encouraging a broad application portfolio, and providing an impetus to start the search process. Some students were offered additional encouragements, such as text message reminders or college application fee waivers. In a randomized control trial with 785,000 low- and middle-income students in the top 50% of the PSAT and SAT distributions, the authors find no changes in college enrollment patterns, with the exception of a 0.02σ increase in college quality measures for African-American and Hispanic students.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalcollege accesspolicy admissionlow-income studentsArticlehttp://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai19-40_v1.pdf