Table A2

Relationship Between Student Characteristics and Average SAT Score/100 of College Attended

	Correlation with College Average SAT Score		Parameter Estimate for Effect of Student Characteristic on College Average SAT Score of School Attended
	1976 Cohort	1989 Cohort	1976 Cohort	1989 Cohort
Predicted parental income	0.182	0.278	−0.020	0.049
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.013)	(0.016)
Student SAT score/100	0.511	0.579	0.060	0.049
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.060)	(0.004)
High school grade point average	0.265	0.200	0.114	−0.052
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.014)	(0.024)
Female	0.016	0.023	0.084	0.067
	0.035	0.033	(0.009)	(0.001)
Black	−0.184	−0.232	−0.066	−0.086
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.019)	(0.022)
Hispanic	0.062	0.084	0.305	0.192
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.043)	(0.033)
Asian	0.090	0.160	0.113	0.036
	< 0.001	< 0.001	(0.030)	(0.020)
Other race	−0.041	0.029	−0.132	0.260
	< 0.001	0.006	(.022)	(0.076)

Source: C&B Survey.
Notes: The first two columns show the correlations (in the top cell) and corresponding p-value (in the bottom cell) between student characteristics and the average SAT score of the college they attended. The third and fourth columns show parameter estimates for the student characteristic shown in the left margin; each parameter estimate is drawn from a separate weighted least squares regression model that estimates the effect of the student characteristic on the average SAT score of the college attended, after controlling for the average SAT score of the schools the student applied to. Standard errors are in parentheses. Weights were used to make the sample representative of the population of students at C&B schools.