Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants. NBER Working Paper No. 26456

Autor/inn/en	Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants. NBER Working Paper No. 26456
Quelle	(2019) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w26456
Schlagwörter	African American Students; College Applicants; Racial Bias; College Entrance Examinations; Scores; Selective Admission; Court Litigation; Massachusetts (Cambridge); SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; College applications; Studienbewerber; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Aufnahmeprüfung; Bildungsselektion; Rechtsstreit
Abstract	Over the past 20 years, elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases in applications. We provide context for part of this trend using detailed data on Harvard University that was unsealed as part of the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit. We show that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being admitted, and that this is particularly true for African Americans. African American applications soared beginning with the Class of 2009, with the increase driven by those with lower SAT scores. Yet there was little change in the share of admits who were African American. We show that this change in applicant behavior resulted in substantial convergence in the overall admissions rates across races yet no change in the large cross-race differences in admissions rates for high-SAT applicants. (As Provided).
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