Peer Influences and Undergraduates' Aspirations for Graduate Study

The level of desire to attend graduate or professional school after college rose rapidly among incoming college freshmen. The separate bearing of three factors (previous academic achievement, socio-economic ambition, and peer group attitude climate) upon this rise is examined, and the first two are...

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Published in:Sociology of education 1965-10, Vol.38 (5), p.375-392
Main Author: Wallace, Walter L.
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Academic achievement
Ambition
Climate change
Educational attainment
Educational sociology
Graduate schools
Graduate students
Graduate studies
Peer groups
Socioeconomics
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Educational attainment
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Graduate schools
Graduate students
Graduate studies
Peer groups
Socioeconomics
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