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Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Social Science @ Stanford University
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There is considerable debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective universities at lower rates than similar white peers. In new work with Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, and @5harad.com, we explore this issue using nearly 700k college applications. 🧵 nber.org/papers/w31527
The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants Joshua Grossman, Sabina Tomkins, Lindsay Page, Sharad Goel There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this issue, in large part due to a dearth of data. Here we present the results from analyzing 685,709 applications from Asian American and white students to a subset of selective U.S. institutions over five application cycles, beginning with the 2015-2016 cycle. The dataset does not include admissions decisions, and so we construct a proxy based in part on enrollment choices. Based on this proxy, we estimate the odds that Asian American applicants were admitted to at least one of the schools we consider were 28% lower than the odds for white students with similar test scores, GPAs, and extracurriculars.
August 8, 2023 at 6:56 AM