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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3:26 again. Now I remember. Somebody at Princeton has done a study along these lines:  http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/Opportunity%20Cost%20of%20Admission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20June%202005.pdf.  This study adjusted for legacy, race and athletic recruitment. I don't have time to reread the study, so I'm going to have to rely on the handy Wikipedia summary of this same study (by all means double-check this against the actual study).  So, according to Wikipedia's summary of the study, the following hooks are equivalent to adding/subtracting SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):

Blacks: +230
    Hispanics: +185
    Asians: -50
    Recruited athletes: +200
    Legacies (children of alumni): +160

Another way to think about the legacy effect is just a pretty straight-forward calculation. If Harvard takes 30% of legacy applicants, and 6% of regular applicants, then a kid who is a legacy has a 5x advantage over a kid who is not a legacy.

In any case, I'm not sure you could readily get the dataset you want without cooperation from schools or colleges. And for that, it would probably help to be a tenured professor at a place like Princeton. You would need many years of data in order to eliminate cohort effects. For example, suppose this year STA's graduating class has 30 legacies at whatever "selective college" criteria you decide on, and Sidwell's graduating class has only 5--but maybe next year this is completely reversed. Plus, as I wrote earlier, the impact of legacy would be clearer if you have a dataset that lets you adjust for race and athletic recruits.[/quote]

The results don't surprise me[/quote]

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