Table C5. Percentage of 2009 9th-grade students who applied to or registered at a college by 2016, by college plans of their close friends (HSLS:09)

Characteristic Applied to or
registered at a
college
  Never applied to or
registered at a
college
 
Total 87.0   13.0  
         
Close friends had 2-year community college plans        
All of them 87.8   12.2  
More than half 85.5   14.5  
About half 84.8   15.2  
Less than half 88.0   12.0  
None of them 91.8   8.2  
         
Close friends had 4-year community college plans        
All of them 97.0   3.0  
More than half 94.6   5.4  
About half 86.6   13.4  
Less than half 75.8   24.2  
None of them 55.6   44.4  
NOTE: Students who responded that they didn't know their close friend's postsecondary plans were not included. Students whose first postsecondary enrollment was at a less than 2-year institution were not included.' The names of the variables used in this table are: S2FR4Y, S2FR2YPUB and X4EVRAPPCLG. Wording for the question can be viewed here: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/hsls09/pdf/2012_student.pdf. The weight variable used in this table is W4W1W2W3STU.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) Second Follow-Up.