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Download full textBlack, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission, Access to Education
Direct linkBlack, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Selective Admission, Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship
Efficacy versus Equity: What Happens When States Tinker With College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?
Peer reviewedBlack, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
We investigate the efficacy and equity of college admissions criteria by estimating the effect of multiple measures of college readiness on college performance in the context of race-blind automatic admissions policies. We take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for selection into…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, College Readiness, Affirmative Action
