caa a22 4500 463161777 CHVBK 20180406164749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10734-006-9031-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10734-006-9031-7 Ayalon Hanna Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel aut College application behavior: who is strategic? Does it help? [Elektronische Daten] [Hanna Ayalon] The paper examines whether college application behavior assists members of privileged social groups to preserve their advantages in diversified higher education systems. The study is based on a survey conducted in Israel in 1999 on a sample of 4,061 freshmen in the research universities and the academic colleges, which are often perceived as the second tier of higher education. The findings show that strategic application behavior helps less able children of academic parents to achieve the summit of higher education: studying lucrative fields of study at the research universities. Mizrachim, the disadvantaged Jewish ethnic group, are strategic when applying for lucrative fields of study, but it does not affect their actual enrollment. Strategic application behavior helps Arabs, the most disadvantaged group in Israel, increase their odds of achieving the "worst” option, studying non-lucrative fields in colleges. Talented women successfully practice strategic behavior when applying for lucrative fields of study. The effects of strategic application behavior are, thus, mixed. It helps in preserving socio-economic and ethnic inequalities, but also helps in reducing gender inequality among talented students. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 College application behavior nationallicence Single and multiple applications nationallicence Qualitative aspect of multiple applications nationallicence Inequality in higher education nationallicence Fields of study nationallicence First-tier and second-tier institutions nationallicence Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/6(2007-12-01), 885-905 0018-1560 54:6<885 2007 54 10734 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-006-9031-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-006-9031-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ayalon Hanna Department of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Higher Education Springer Netherlands 54/6(2007-12-01), 885-905 0018-1560 54:6<885 2007 54 10734 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer