@article {175246,
	title = {Intensive College Counseling and the Enrollment and Persistence of Low Income Students},
	journal = {Education Finance and Policy},
	volume = {13},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {19-41},
	abstract = {
	Though counseling is one commonly pursued intervention to improve college enrollment and\&nbsp;completion for disadvantaged students, there is relatively little causal evidence on its efficacy.\&nbsp;We study the impact of intensive college counseling provided to college-seeking, low income students by a Massachusetts program that admits applicants partly on the basis of a minimum\&nbsp;GPA requirement. We utilize a regression discontinuity design comparing students just above\&nbsp;and below this threshold and find that counseling successfully shifts enrollment toward four-year\&nbsp;colleges encouraged by the program, which are largely public and substantially less expensive\&nbsp;than alternatives students would otherwise choose. Counseling appears to improve persistence through the third year of college, with particularly large impacts on female students and those\&nbsp;who speak English at home. The evidence suggests potential for intensive college counseling to\&nbsp;improve degree completion rates for disadvantaged students.

},
	url = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/edfp_a_00204},
	author = {Benjamin Castleman and Joshua Goodman}
}
