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[quote=Anonymous][quote]We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and  ACT test scores to study the determinants and causal effects of attending Ivy-Plus colleges (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago). Children from families in the top 1% are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy-Plus college as those from middle-class families with comparable SAT/ACT scores. Two-thirds of this gap is due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is due to differences in rates of application and matriculation [/quote]

I haven't gotten around to reading the paper, so perhaps this is answered in the methods, but the first few sentences here appear to conflate admission with enrollment, and I'm skeptical that colleges would release data on applicant pools vs admitted vs enrolled sufficient to make these calculations.

All top colleges have enrollment management consultants that use algorithms and/or have their own in-house mathematical modeling. The extent to which wealth (which is not the same as income alone) is a factor is known by enrollment management consulting.[/quote]

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