SCHOOL CONTEXT AND PEER INFLUENCES ON EDUCATIONAL PLANS OF ADOLESCENTS.

This article reviews the studies on the prolongation of adolescence that suggests that the educational plans of adolescents may be more affected by peers. The relations between school social class composition and the college plans of students in this article appears to involve a positive effect of the student upon the desire to attend college, which is transmitted through personal friends in school and a negative effect upon self-perceived ability to attend college. The effects is traced in this article that involves a comparison of one's grades in high school. The review of the studies found some degree of positive relationship between school social class composition and the college plans of students of a given social class.