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Meghan Oster

Associate Research Scientist, The College Board
Meghan Oster is an associate research scientist at The College Board where she supports research initiatives across the organization using a variety of internal data sources.  She is working on creating AP student profiles to describe how students mo...
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CIERS seminar leads to on-the-ground financial aid research 

Oct 2, 2023
“We have great data in Iowa, and we are always interested in working with graduate students to probe it and see what we can learn.” That was an invitation from Meghan Oster (PhD ‘21), who was already working at Iowa College Aid, the state’s coordinat...
CIERS seminar leads to on-the-ground financial aid research 
Postsecondary preparation & success

HAIL Scholars: Increasing Economic Diversity at a Flagship University

January 2014
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Susan Dynarski, Katherine Michelmore, Meghan Oster, Stephanie Owen, Elizabeth Burland, Shwetha Raghuraman
EPI researchers and University of Michigan administrators developed and piloted the HAIL scholarship research program to attract low-income, high-achieving students to consider applying to and enrolling in the university. The project addresses three issues known to affect college application behavior among low-income, high-achieving students: uncertainty about their suitability for an elite school, over-estimates by students and parents of the net cost of college, and procedural barriers such as aid applications. The intervention targets low-income, high-achieving students in Michigan, as well...
University of Michigan's HAIL Scholarship