Admission Preferences for Minority Students, Athletes, and Legacies at Elite Universities*

By T. Espenshade, C. Chung, J. Walling. 2004

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Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, unknown): “For example, Espenshade, Chung, and Walling (2004) find preferences for athletes to be smaller than that for African Americans, but similar to that for Hispanics, with lower (but still significant) preferences for legacies.”
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020, methodology): “Espenshade et al. (2004) use admissions data from three elite private colleges to evaluate the extent to which”
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017, unknown): “The first assumption is motivated by evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are admitted to selective colleges tend to have similar or lower observable measures of ability, such as SAT scores (Espenshade et al. 2004; Hoxby and Avery 2013).”