The data in graduation.csv include student-level attributes for \(n=2,344\) randomly sampled students who were first-year, full-time students from the 2002 cohort at a large, midwestern research university. Any students who transferred to another institution were removed from the data. The source of these data is Jones-White, Radcliffe, Lorenz, & Soria (2014). The attributes, collected for these students are:
student: Student ID number in the dataset
degree: Did the student obtain a degree (i.e., graduate) from the institution? (No; Yes)
act: Student’s ACT score (If the student reported a SAT score, a concordance table was used to transform the score to a comparable ACT score.)
scholarship: Amount of scholarship offered to student (in thousands of dollars)
ap_courses: Number of Advanced Placement credits at time of enrollment
first_gen: Is the student a first generation college student? (No; Yes)
non_traditional: Is the student a non-traditional student (older than 19 years old at the time of enrollment)? (No; Yes)
# A tibble: 2,344 × 7
student degree act scholarship ap_courses first_gen non_traditional
<dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 1 Yes 21 0 0 No No
2 2 Yes 19 0 0 No No
3 3 Yes 27 0 0 Yes No
4 4 Yes 25 0.5 0 Yes No
5 5 No 28 0 17 Yes No
6 6 Yes 21 0 0 No Yes
7 7 Yes 27 0 8 Yes No
8 8 No 20 0 0 No No
9 9 Yes 26 0 0 Yes No
10 10 Yes 25 0 4 Yes No
# … with 2,334 more rows
References
Jones-White, D. R., Radcliffe, P. M., Lorenz, L. M., & Soria, K. M. (2014). Priced out?: The influence of financial aid on the educational trajectories of first-year students starting college at a large research university. Research in Higher Education, 55(4), 329–350.