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Impact of Private Scholarships on College Access and Completion. Mark Kantrowitz Publisher of Edvisors.com. Caveats Concerning Impact of Private Scholarships. Correlations do not prove causation
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Impact of Private Scholarships on College Access and Completion Mark Kantrowitz Publisher of Edvisors.com
Caveats Concerning Impact of Private Scholarships • Correlations do not prove causation • A “dose-response” relationship, where outcomes improve with increases in the amount of private scholarships, is suggestive of causation • Which is cause and which is effect, however, is unclear unless there is a temporal relationship (e.g., cause precedes effect) • There may also be a shared cause of both effects • The impact of private scholarships may also be due to the inadequacy of government and institutional need-based grants • There may also be a dependency on having a “critical mass” of scholarships relative to costs
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