ABSTRACT I use a panel of higher education clearinghouse data to study the centralized assignment of applicants to Finnish polytechnics. Many top applicants remain completely unassigned each year. The same applicants' future applications reveal that many of them should have been admitted to a different program immediately. The application system, however, discourages applicants from applying to multiple programs within the same year, while at the same time leaving them in the dark on the set of programs willing to admit them. Improvements to the application system have the potential to substantially reduce reapplications, thereby shortening long queues into Finnish higher education.

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芬兰理工学院为何拒绝顶尖申请人

摘要我使用一组高等教育信息交换所数据来研究申请人对芬兰理工学院的集中分配。每年都有许多顶级申请人完全未分配。同一申请人将来的申请表明，他们中的许多人本应立即被录取到其他课程。但是，申请系统不鼓励申请者在同一年内申请多个课程，同时又使愿意接受这些课程的申请者陷入困境。申请系统的改进有可能大幅减少重新申请，从而缩短了进入芬兰高等教育的长龙。