The majority of ADT earners who did not apply to CSU ended up not enrolling in a four-year institution
Source: Authors' calculations using MIS data, CSU student-level application data, and National Student Clearinghouse data.
NOTES: Included are 276,400 students who earned an ADT between academic years 2018–19 and 2022–23. One limitation of the NSC data is record blocking. Records can be blocked by the student (i.e., under FERPA the student indicates that they do not want their college records to be disclosed) or less commonly by the school. Typically, this proportion is approximately 10 percent. Since individual students with blocked records are not identified, they cannot be distinguished from students who truly did not enroll in another four-year institution. This means that there is a proportion of students who did enroll (and possibly earned a degree) that show up as “no record found” in the NSC data. We have NSC data through fall 2023, so it is possible that some “no record found” students have enrolled after that. In this figure "no record found" = Did not enroll in a four-year institution.