Peer Influence in College Applications -- by Ana M. Gazmuri, Elena Prager

We thank Vivek Bhattacharya, Anais Fabre, David Figlio, Chao Fu, JF Houde, Rob Porter, John Singleton, and numerous seminar and conference participants for helpful suggestions. Gazmuri acknowledges funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR) under the Investments for the Future (Investissements d’Avenir) program, grant ANR-17-EURE-0010, grant MATCHINEQ - ANR-22-CE26-0005-01, and The European Research Council (ERC) and the European Union (grant agreement No 101162723 — EDDYNCHOICE). Prager gratefully acknowledges funding from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. We thank Diego Fica for excellent research assistance. We are grateful to Lars Nielsen, Allison Van, and Lily Wang at McMaster University's Secure Empirical Analysis Lab (SEAL) for their support with the OUAC data. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and may not represent OUAC, any Ontario university, or any funder. Any errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.