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Plans of High School Graduates: Class of 2002
Gender | |
| In the 2002 graduating class, 79 percent of |  |
| female graduates planned to attend a twoor | |
| four-year college, compared to 67 | |
| percent of male graduates, while a higher | |
| percentage of male graduates than female | |
| graduates (17 versus nine percent) | |
| intended to work (Table 1). Over four | |
| times as many males as females planned to | |
| enter the military (approximately four to | |
| one percent). These differences extend a | |
| gender pattern seen in recent years. In the | |
| last ten years, females have consistently | |
| planned to attend college at a higher rate (approximately 13 percentage points) than males, but | |
| each gender has increasingly planned to attend college over this time period (Figure 7). | |
Race/Ethnicity and Gender | |
| The disparity between the percentages of female and male graduates planning to attend college | |
| also varies by race/ethnicity (Figure 8). In each racial/ethnic group, the percentage of female | |
| graduates planning |  |
| to attend college | |
| was higher than that | |
| of male graduates. | |
| The largest | |
| difference was | |
| among Hispanic | |
| graduates, with 62 | |
| percent of Hispanic | |
| female graduates | |
| having planned to | |
| attend college | |
| compared to 46 | |
| percent of Hispanic | |
| male graduates (a | |
| difference of 16 percentage points). The smallest difference was among Asian graduates: within | |
| this group 82 percent of female graduates and 77 percent of male graduates planned to attend | |
| college. | |