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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked this from the abstract: "the three factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes, whereas academic credentials such
as SAT/ACT scores are highly predictive of post-college success."

As in, if we had a meritocracy, the nonacademic admits are literally a wasted education and the seats should be given to good test takers.[/quote]

That was part of the abstract but it wasn’t aligned to their conclusion which was to add more preferences for lower SES students and adjust athletic recruiting to match the academic profile of the class overall which again shifts preferences downward.

The irony of the second part is that if you look at the data, athletic recruits while uncorrelated overall had high correlation in conjunction with high SAT/ACT scores meaning that a being a high scoring athletic recruit was extremely predictive of post graduate economic success.[/quote]

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