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The College Decision: Influences, Factors, and Concerns of Students at LHS

A Statistics Project By Shannon Stocks, Liat Yael Kastner , and BERNARDERIOUS OCHARDO. The College Decision: Influences, Factors, and Concerns of Students at LHS. Our Study. This project focused on 12 factors that we considered important to college making decisions. Location

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The College Decision: Influences, Factors, and Concerns of Students at LHS

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  1. A Statistics Project By Shannon Stocks, Liat Yael Kastner, and BERNARDERIOUS OCHARDO The College Decision: Influences, Factors, and Concerns of Students at LHS

  2. Our Study • This project focused on 12 factors that we considered important to college making decisions. • Location • Social Atmosphere • Parent’s Opinion • Academic Ranking • Academic Rigor • Merit Scholarship • Financial Aid • Size • Distance • Sports • In-State Schools • On Campus Parking

  3. Our Study (cont.) • In our study, we asked survey takers to rank the importance of these factors from 1-5*. Here are our results: Female *In-state schools and On Campus Parking were both yes/no questions.

  4. Our Study (cont.) Male

  5. Results • We then ran 2-SampT tests on our recorded data, comparing each of the male and female factors to each other.

  6. Comparing parking and In-State Influence Among Males and Females Trends: Parking was rarely a factor More females considered in-state schools

  7. Comparing other factors Trends: Cost was rarely a major influence among both genders

  8. Research • 2008 College Board Study • academic quality topped list of factors • over 80% of the students agreeing that it is more important than other categories • Financial Aid, cost of attendance, academic rigor, location, and recreational activities/social atmosphere and more

  9. Research (cont.) • StudentLoanNetwork’sPoll July 2011 • Cost of Attendance topped list of factors • Our study finds the opposite about Livingston students • generally small population (flaw in study)

  10. Conclusions Drawn From Data • As a part of our conclusion we drew null and alternative hypothesis from this data. • Null: The level of influence of the various factors that are considered in a college decision is equal for males and females. • Alternative Hypothesis: The level of influence of the various factors that are considered in a college decision is NOT equal for males and females.

  11. Conclusions (cont.) • The majority of the factors we studied did not have enough evidence to reject the null. • These factors were: Location, Social Atmosphere, Academic Rigor, Merit Scholarship, Financial Aid, Size, Distance, Sports, Cost, In-state Colleges and Parking. • This means that these choices affect both males and females equally.

  12. Conclusions (cont.) • However, there were also some factors that did support the alternative. This means that they had p-values that were less than .05. • These were: Parents Opinion and Academic Ranking • This means that these factors affect males and females differently.

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