Examining the Relations Between Extracurricular Activities, Parental Education, Academic Expectation, and College Entrance

• In Event: College Athletics: Academic and Organizational Success

Abstract

College entrance has long been considered as one of the most important turning point in students’ life. Existing literature has examined various aspects that determines students’ timing of entering college, such as high school academic performance, family socioeconomic status, dropout experience and graduated with a GED (Bozick and DeLuca, 2005). However, how the effects of factors are changing as the time gap extends has not been fully discussed. The current research is aiming to use a survival analysis approach to explore the relations between extracurricular activities, parental education, academic expectation and students’ timing of entering college. The expected finding is that the influence of the included factors will be constantly changing as students’ timing of entering college is prolonged.

Author

• Fengrong Yang, Stanford University