Reply to Harvard's odd quota on Asian-Americans

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Harvard's odd quota on Asian-Americans"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But it's not the only standard for academic preparedness -- transcripts, GPAs, letters of recommendation, SAT IIs, and a writing sample are all in the file as well.

Back in the day (in my case, around the time of the Bakke decision), Harvard collected data about how students from each HS did once they got to Harvard.  So there was a kind of institutional track record wrt adequacy of preparation as well as data on the individual applicant. [/quote]

I recommend any serious thinker of this important social issue to read recent works by a Duke economist Peter Arcidiacono. I linked one above that is still a working paper. The one below is published. And he has more publications in this area as well. I think his work is really fair and balanced. And mostly he discusses the idea of mis-fit. He found in various different selective schools that the affirmative action beneficiaries at times were mismatched in terms of academic preparedness and demand. A main phenomenon he noticed is that they switched out of tough majors and express less satisfaction with the school in question. Something to think about.

http://www.qeconomics.org/ojs/index.php/qe/article/view/25[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics