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The benefit of selective schools for URMs seems to be a huge asterisk that really weakens the study's conclusions, especially given that now they're nearly half of the under age 18 population in this country.  Once you add in students whose parents did not graduate from college, that may take the percentage of students for whom selective schools making a difference to over 50 percent.  What you seem to be portraying as the exception is actually swallowing the rule.

Also, this study covered a cohort that attended undergrad 40 years ago.[/quote]

I'm not following your logic here. When the researchers analyzed white and Asian families with some means, they found that there was no difference in incomes for the schools they attended. Yet you run to "swallowing the rule" quickly due to the benefits of the URM/hooked kids. Can you connect the dots more fully? I'm not seeing the conflict as clearly as you.

Yes, the latest results are based on 1993 graduates: "The new paper also looks at students who had been freshmen in 1989 and follows their earnings through the middle part of the last decade." What are your thoughts on how that affects the relevance of the study?[/quote]

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