The summer between high school graduation and college start is a vulnerable period in which students intending to enroll fail to matriculate (summer melt)¶
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q2 i? Students intending to enroll in college sometimes fail to actually matriculate during the summer after graduation, a phenomenon called summer melt. → Schneider 2013
Evidence¶
Schneider 2013¶
Schneider, B., Broda, M., & Judy, J. (2013). Summer Outreach with Near-Age Peer Mentors: A Randomized Experiment to Improve the Transition to College. SREE Spring 2013 Conference abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED564094
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Background statement in the abstract's context section, attributed to prior work the authors cite (Authors, 2009; Authors, 2012). The abstract offers no effect size for the melt phenomenon itself; it motivates the randomized outreach study described here.
"the summer between their graduation and the start of college has been found to be a vulnerable time in which students intending to enroll in college, fail to actually matriculate"
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Related Claims¶
- The summer outreach study uses a pretest-posttest randomized design with 40 percent of each graduating class assigned to treatment, analyzed via intent-to-treat models of fall enrollment — related
- Approximately 10 percent of CPS graduates accepted into a four-year college do not enroll the following fall — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Becoming too focused on a single college option left a highly qualified student with no fallback when that option fell through, and she did not enroll in college — related
- Even students with stellar qualifications and strong plans can fail to enroll after career uncertainty, incomplete financial aid paperwork, and no extended adult conversation about college combine to make choice feel too risky — related
- Students with strong qualifications took themselves out of four-year college planning, choosing early two-year enrollment as a low-risk solution when searches felt overwhelming and costly — related
- Among accepted students, FAFSA completion is associated with roughly 50 percent higher four-year college enrollment — related
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