Table 3

Differences in Ordinal Ranking of Selected Schools

	Full Sample	Qualified Students	Qualified, Low‐Perf. Public JHS	Qualified, High‐Perf. Public JHS	Qualified, Private JHS
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Panel A: Rank Ordering by School Selectivity
q_i₁ > q_i₂ > . . . > q_iN	0.079	0.114	0.065	0.120	0.174
q_i₁ ≥ q_i₂ ≥ . . . ≥ q_iN	0.100	0.140	0.085	0.148	0.206
q_i₁ = max(q_i) and q_iN = min(q_i)	0.262	0.338	0.235	0.349	0.463
q_i₁ ≥ q_iN	0.825	0.886	0.824	0.905	0.944
SD of school selectivity	0.621	0.687	0.601	0.696	0.792
N	978,760	487,562	178,991	178,035	130,536
Panel B: Rank Ordering by School SSCE Performance
ssce_i₁ > ssce_i₂ > . . . > ssce_iN	0.059	0.087	0.049	0.091	0.131
ssce_i₁ ≥ ssce_i₂ ≥ . . . ≥ ssce_iN	0.079	0.111	0.068	0.117	0.161
ssce_i₁ = max(ssce_i) and ssce_iN = min(ssce_i)	0.217	0.284	0.189	0.289	0.403
ssce_i₁ ≥ ssce_iN	0.780	0.845	0.769	0.864	0.921
SD of SSCE performance	0.689	0.783	0.650	0.804	0.932
N	888,319	453,006	163,787	165,328	123,891

Notes: Table indicates the share of students whose ranking of application choices satisfies a given measure; for example, choices are strictly ranked in order of selectivity (Row 1), or choices are weakly ranked in order of selectivity (Row 2). School selectivity measures the mean ninth grade exam score of students admitted in the previous year. SSCE performance measures the percentage of secondary school students who earned a credit in the 12th grade English and math exams and is missing for schools that had not yet presented any SSCE candidates. Both are normalized to have mean zero and standard deviation of one.