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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how much of this result is driven by the way they group the colleges.

They grouped colleges like this:
* “Ivy Plus”: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Brown, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth 
* “Other selective privates”: Northwestern, Hopkins, Georgetown, Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, CMU, WUSL, Emory, CalTech, NYU, USC
* “Flagships”: UCLA, Cal, Michigan, UT Austin, Florida, UGA, UNC, UVA, Ohio State

What would happen if you reorganized those lists? 
* If you broke out HYPSM as their own group, would the rest of Group A still show different results from Group B? 
* Would Group B improve if you removed the big urban schools (NYU and USC), which are obviously distinct from the others in many ways? 
* How much would Group C improve if you replaced Ohio State with Georgia Tech? 
* If you broke out the elite tech schools (MIT, CalTech, CMU, Ga. Tech) as their own group, would that group do better or worse than HYPS? Would it do better than Chicago?

The way the paper is presented seems designed to convince you that an anthropology major from Columbia is destined to earn more money than a premed from Hopkins or an aerospace engineer from Georgia Tech, but I’m dubious.[/quote]

And why are some colleges even listed/included in study given already passed laws cannot do legacy:

California: In 2024, California passed a law banning private colleges from giving preference to applicants with alumni or donor connections.
Colorado: In 2021, Colorado was the first state to ban legacy preferences for all public colleges and universities.
Illinois: This state has outlawed the practice for public universities.
Maryland: This state became the first to pass a ban affecting both private and public colleges.
Virginia: In 2024, a bipartisan law passed that banned legacy and donor preference at all public colleges and universities. 
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The paper wasn't trying to determine the effect of legacy admissions.  it was trying to identify determinants and causal effects of admission to highly selective colleges.
It wasn't just the legacy admissions' effects non admissions[/quote]

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