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[quote=Anonymous]There's a more recent study from the lawsuit evidence published in Journal of Labor Economics but available ungated here: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

Overall they claim: "Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as typical white applicants." ALDC =athlete, legacy, dean's admit list, child of faculty

Other interesting findings: "A typical applicant with only a 1% chance of admission would see his admission likelihood increase to 98% if he were a recruited athlete. Being a recruited athlete essentially guarantees admission even for the least-qualified applicants. A similar calculation, but in reverse, emphasizes the advantage athletes receive. An athlete who has an 86% probability of admission—the average rate among athletes—would have only a 0.1% chance of admission absent the athlete tip." "The estimated coefficients on indicators for legacy, double legacy (i.e. both parents are alumni), faculty or staff child, and being on the dean’s interest list are all large, positive, and statistically significant. The odds ratio for legacy is 8.5, and is even larger for double legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty. In a slightly altered model that includes athletes, the odds ratio for athletes exceeds five thousand (see Table D4)."

There is a massive admissions advantage to being a recruited athlete, and that advantage disproportionately benefits white students largely because Harvard has an extraordinary number of varsity sports, and therefore athletes, many in sports like skiiing, squash, ice hockey, water polo, crew, etc... [/quote]

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