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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay. Again, on Table 1 of the figure, it shows black students have a ~65% acceptance rate, whereas Asian and white students have a ~36% acceptance rate and overall everyone has a ~39% acceptance rate.

The source for 2016 shows that the gap is far less now than it was in 2004. It stands logically that even if one were to perform a regression of black and non-black applicants with the same scores, you would not see a 106 to 1 difference. [/quote]

I have no dog in this fight, but sorry it does not logically follow.[/quote]

People keep quoting the researcher from Princeton who found that URMs get a +250 point SAT bump.  The data from this research is not actually from 2004 - that was when his research was published. It takes years to get published and accepted in a journal. The data is from 1983, 1993 and 1997.

People keep quoting this as if it is current fact but I don't believe the same analysis has not been run on a more recent group of kids.   Here is a copy of the actual paper:

http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/files/webAdmission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20Walling%20Dec%202004.pdf

Also want to point out that the research found that underrepresented minority student status made almost no difference to admission chances at the less selective four-year institutions attended by 80 percent of students.

Thinking I'll make this note a separate thread so people can be cautious when they think they are quoting it.  Might be a good idea for folks to actually read the paper themselves to get actual facts.[/quote]

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