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D., Courtney Thrash, M.A., & Irina Chukhray, M.A.  \nEMERGE Houston ISD Twitter account ( [https://twitter.com/EMERGE_HISD/status/1471876319122231304](https://twitter.com/EMERGE_HISD/status/1471876319122231304))  \nResearch Brief  \nfor the Houston Independent School District July 2023  \nSuggested citation. Holzman, B., Thrash, C., & Chukhray, I. (2023). Understanding the Effect of EMERGE on HISD Student Outcomes.  \nHouston, TX: Houston Education Research Consortium, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University.  \nNote on the authors. Brian Holzman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Irina Chukhray, M.A., is a doctoral student at the University of California, Davis.  \nAbout HERC. Focusing on the most pressing challenges facing the region, the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) is a researchpractice partnership between the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and 11 Houston-area school districts. HERC research is developed directly alongside district leaders with findings shared with decision makers—culminating in long-term, equity-minded solutions, opportunities and growth for Houston and beyond.  \n[DOI: doi.org/10.25611/90NR-WG94](DOI: doi.org/10.25611/90NR-WG94)  \nResearch Brief  \nUnderstanding the Effect of HISD’s EMERGE Program on Student Outcomes  \nHigh-performing first-generation and economically disadvantaged students are  \nmore likely to attend colleges and universities that are less competitive than their academic qualifications allow, which makes them less likely to graduate. EMERGE is a multiyear, personalized college advising program that aims to address this problem by preparing academically high-performing first-generation and economically disadvantaged students to attend and graduate from the nation’s most selective colleges and universities. The costs associated with this high-touch approach warrant investigating how EMERGE compares with low-touch information packets and general district support. This first-ever causal study of EMERGE compared students who were admitted to HISD’s EMERGE program with comparable students who applied but were not admitted and were close to the admission cutoff.1 The analyses showed students admitted to HISD’s EMERGE program were significantly more likely to apply to selective colleges, submit more applications to selective colleges, and enroll in selective colleges. Information packets were ineffective.  \nKey Findings  \nApplications to selective colleges and universities  \n▪ There was a positive effect of admission to HISD’s EMERGE program on applications to selective colleges and universities.  \n▪ EMERGE students were 19 percentage points more likely to apply to Top 1 Barron’s colleges and  \n18 percentage points more likely to apply to Top  \n1 or 2 Barron’s colleges, relative to general district support students.  \n▪ EMERGE students submitted 1.6 more applications to Top 1 Barron’s colleges and 2.7 more applications to Top 1 or 2 Barron’s colleges, almost double the number compared to general district support students.  \n▪ There was no effect of the information packet intervention on applications to selective colleges and universities.1  \n1 All estimates produced in this report are intent-to-treat effects from sharp regression discontinuity models (i.e., the effect of admission). Local average treatment effects from fuzzy regression discontinuity models based on partial compliance data (i.e., the effect of participation) are substantively similar and available from the authors upon request.  \nUnderstanding the Effect of HISD’s EMERGE Program on Student Outcomes ~~  ~~1~~  ~~  \nRESEARCH BRIEF  \nEMERGE Houston ISD Twitter account ( [https://twitter.com/EMERGE_HISD/status/1481342261657063427](https://twitter.com/EMERGE_HISD/status/1481342261657063427))  \nEnrollment at selective colleges and universities SAT sco","cbCaiqQOQ1KXDRbF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqQOQ1KXDRbF","pdf",2916062,18,"English","# Key Findings\n## Applications to selective colleges and universities\n## Enrollment at selective colleges and universities\n## SAT scores\n# Background","[{\"question\":\"What is the EMERGE program intended to do for students?\",\"answer\":\"EMERGE is a multiyear, personalized college advising program designed to prepare high-performing first-generation and economically disadvantaged students to attend and graduate from the most selective colleges and universities.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the study compare EMERGE students with others?\",\"answer\":\"The causal study compared students admitted to EMERGE with comparable applicants who applied but were not admitted and were close to the admission cutoff.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the main effects of admission to EMERGE on student outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"Admission to EMERGE increased the likelihood of applying to selective colleges, submitting more applications, and enrolling in selective colleges, while the information packet intervention showed no effect and no admission effect was found for enrollment outcomes on SAT scores.\"}]","Understanding the Effect of HISD’s EMERGE Program on Student Outcomes - Research Brief | PDF",1792052650,45]