Only a single study was identified that reported a link between adolescents' peer networks and their educational expectations and aspirations. Murdock et al. (2000) found that adolescents who perceived higher peer educational aspirations in 7th grade were more likely to expect to go to college in 9th grade then adolescents who perceived lower educational aspirations among their peers in 7th grade. This relationship was found in a small sample of mostly Caucasian and African American students from the mid-Atlantic, in a study that controlled for a number of educational variables in the seventh grade, including students' earlier educational aspirations.