TY - Report AU - Sinan Gemici AU - Patrick Lim AU - Tom Karmel PY - 2013 T1 - The impact of schools on young people's transition to university PB - National Centre for Vocational Education Research DO - https://doi.org/APO-33490 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33490 AB - This report uses Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) data to look at the impact of schools on a student’s tertiary entrance rank (TER) and the probability of them going to university (controlling for TER). It shows that the characteristics of schools do matter: although young people’s individual characteristics are the main drivers of success, school attributes are also responsible for almost 20% of the variation in TER scores. ER -