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Predicción de notas en Derecho de la Universidad de Chile: ¿sirve el ranking?
[College performance of Law Students in the University of Chile - Does High School Ranking help?]

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  • Meneses, Francisco
  • Toro, Javiera

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In this article we analyze the characteristics of students who took the Test of University Selection (PSU in Spanish) in the year 2004 and were admitted into the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Chile. The explanatory capacity of the admission system is evaluated, using the PSU test and the Secondary Education Grades (NEM) as well as the relative ability or ranking of students in the secondary school they graduated from. The average grades of students in their fifth year of university are used as an explanatory variable. The results show that the ranking increases the explanatory capacity by half a percentage point - helping to identify the students’ academic abilities. Being the best student in high school implies 3 additional tenths (+0.3%) in the average grades gotten at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Chile.

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  • Meneses, Francisco & Toro, Javiera, 2012. "Predicción de notas en Derecho de la Universidad de Chile: ¿sirve el ranking? [College performance of Law Students in the University of Chile - Does High School Ranking help?]," MPRA Paper 66570, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Meneses, Francisco/F & Parra, Alvaro/P & Zenteno, Luis/L, 2005. "Se Puede Mejorar el Sistema de Ingreso a las Universidades Chilenas? El uso del ranking en la Universidad Catolica de Chile, Universidad de Chile y Universidad de Santiago de Chile [Can the Chilean," MPRA Paper 23048, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Contreras, Dante & Gallegos, Sebastian & Meneses, Francisco, 2009. "Determinantes del desempeño universitario: ¿Importa la habilidad relativa? [University performance determinants: does relative ability matter?]," MPRA Paper 23320, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    ranking; PSU; selección; equidad; eficiencia; college selection; SAT; ranking;
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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