Taxprof links to a paper that uses Duke University undergraduate admissions statistics and student performance to shed light on the “mismatch thesis.” One interesting thing about the results is that admitted Asian American students scored higher than whites in every category save one (a slightly lower score for “personal qualities”). And they also had lower incomes than admitted white students. And they wound up with higher GPAs than their white counterparts. In short, it appears to be significantly harder to get into Duke if you are of Asian descent than if you are white [though of course it would require complex statistical analysis of the entire data set to truly be confident of the inference].
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