“…Supporting such qualitative research, trajectories of ethnically diverse adolescents living in the U.S. suggest that girls report higher educational expectations in early adolescence and a slower decline in late adolescence as compared to boys (Mello, 2008). Another related body of research, focused on recent Hispanic and Asian immigrants, notes that adolescent girls, as compared to boys, report higher GPAs (Hagelskamp, Suarez-Orozco, & Hughes, 2010) and more stable trajectories of educational performance (i.e., GPA; Suarez-Orozco, Bang, & Onaga, 2010). Sex differences for Mexican-origin adolescents' educational expectations trajectories have been scarcely explored, though the results of previous qualitative (Qin-Hilliard) and quantitative (Mello; Suarez-Orozco et al) studies guide our hypothesis that Mexican-origin girls will show higher and more stable educational expectations as compared to boys.…”