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As Hispanic students have been theorized to be more constrained in the college search and selection process, one potential policy lever is to increase the set of colleges to which these students apply and attend. In this paper, we investigate the impacts ofthe College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), which recognizes the highest-scoring 11th-grade Hispanic students on the PSAT/NMSQT, as a mechanism of improving college choice and completion. The program not only informs students about their relative ability, but it also enables colleges to identify, recruit, and offer enrollment incentives. Overall, we find that the program has strong effects on college attendance patterns, shifting students from two-year to four-year institutions, as well as to colleges that are out-of-state and public flagships, all areas where Hispanic attendance has lagged. NHRP shifts the geographic distribution of where students earn their degree, and increases overall bachelor’s completion among Hispanic students who traditionally have had lower rates of success. These results demonstrate that college outreach can have significant impacts on the enrollment choices of Hispanic students and can serve as a policy lever for colleges looking to draw academically talented students.  2016 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nCollege completion among Hispanics remains persistently lower than both whitesand other minority groups, even as their high school graduation and college attendance rates have risen over the past decade (Kena et al., 2015; Murnane, 2013) . Improving degree completion for Hispanic students is particularly important as they are the largest minority group in the United States, increasing in population almost six-fold from 1970 to 2014 (Krogstad & Lopez, 2015) . One potential method to increase degree completion is to expand the set of institutions to which Hispanic students apply and enroll, as the type of college attended has been shown to have causal impacts on degree attainment (Black & Smith, 2004; Cohodes & Goodman, 2014; Goodman, Hurwitz, & Smith, forthcoming; Smith, Pender, & Howell, 2013) . This approach may be particularly relevant for Hispanic students, who have been identified as having relatively fewer educational opportunities in high school (Jackson, 2010; Kanno & Kangas, 2014), and may have stronger preferences for colleges close to home (Desmond & Turley, 2009; McDonough, 1999; Perna, 2000; Perna & Titus, 2005), which may restrict Hispanic students’ choice sets.  \nJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 00, No. 0, 1–37 (2016)  \n 2016 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management  \nPublished by Wiley Periodicals, [Inc. View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pam](Inc. View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pam)[ ](Inc. View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pam)Supporting Information is available in the online [issue at wileyonlinelibrary.com](issue at wileyonlinelibrary.com).  \nDOI:10.1002/pam.21962  \n2 / College Enrollment and Completion Among High-Performing Hispanics  \nIn this paper, we estimate whether the college application and enrollment decisions of high-achieving Hispanic students are impacted by the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), a College Board-created initiative that recognizestop-performing students based on their 11th-grade Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualify Test (PSAT/NMSQT, henceforth PSAT) . We generate causal impacts using a regression discontinuity (RD) design that compares students who are barely eligible for this recognition to academically similar but unrec","cbCaidqFEOaxT3Bk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidqFEOaxT3Bk","pdf",1212507,38,"English","# Introduction\n## Policy lever and NHRP overview\n## Mechanisms linking recognition to enrollment and completion","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the paper address about Hispanic college outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"The paper addresses persistently lower college completion rates among Hispanic students compared with academically similar white students, even as other educational indicators have improved.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) and how is it studied?\",\"answer\":\"NHRP recognizes top-scoring 11th-grade Hispanic students on the PSAT/NMSQT. The paper estimates causal impacts using a regression discontinuity design comparing students near the eligibility threshold.\"},{\"question\":\"How does NHRP affect college attendance and degree completion?\",\"answer\":\"The program shifts attendance from two-year to four-year institutions and increases enrollment in out-of-state public flagship colleges. It also changes where degrees are earned and increases overall bachelor’s completion among Hispanic students who historically had lower rates.\"}]","College Enrollment and Completion Among Nationally Recognized High-Achieving Hispanic Students | PDF",96]