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[quote=SAM2]DCUM, I need your help thinking through an approach to some data crunching.  I was thinking this morning about college admissions and the legacy factor.  Many people here question whether college admissions from top high schools are driven by a strong academic profile (SAT, GPA, etc), or instead by legacy.  I was wondering whether it's feasible to construct a data set that tests the correlation between college admissions and other objective (non-legacy) scores.  I have pretty good data on college admissions to most area high schools (about 10 yrs of data), and I have good data on NMSF success (which is a pretty good proxy for academic success) (15 yrs of data), so I should be able to test the correlation, right?  If the correlation is strong, then that suggests academic factors are the big drivers to college admissions success.  If the correlation is low, then that can give some better sense of whether other factors like legacy or athletics plays a bigger role.

I suspect there is lots of correlation between college admissions and academics, but it's not perfect, because surely there are other factors that affect college admissions.  I'm wondering whether the correlation is stronger or weaker for particular schools.

This is all half-baked and might not really work.  I need constructive feedback on how best to develop such an analysis, and whether it might show anything useful.  Fire away.

Sam2[/quote]

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