This work shows some findings made by the Department of Research and Public Information of Consejo Nacional de Educación (Chile). The main goal of the study was to raise information about the perceptions, interpretations and  a sense making made by high school’s recently graduated students and their transit to post-secondary life.

During the study we had access to that information by interviewing a group off high school’s graduated students who had lived that process. Previously, in April 2008, while they were having their last course off secondary education, a survey to characterize this origin group was applied. Afterwards, between May and July 2009, when they had already graduated, we interviewed them to objetivo.

This document shows, between its main findings, results that account for the factors which structure the student´s decision process to continue superior studies; asymmetries of information that affect decision making, their typical educational paths, as well as new mechanisms that could help to understand university drop-outs.

Transit, educational paths, secondary education, higher education.