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Sharad Goel
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Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, using data + tech to drive reform in criminal justice, education, healthcare, and beyond. 5harad.com
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We find that Asian American applicants — especially South Asians — are much less likely to be admitted to selective colleges than white students with similar test scores, GPAs, and extracurricular activities. Much of the gap is due to geography and preferential treatment of legacy applicants.

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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.
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Sharad Goel
@5harad.com
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, using data + tech to drive reform in criminal justice, education, healthcare, and beyond. 5harad.com
217 followers93 following4 posts
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