What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Tyler Ransom

Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, vol. 1, issue 4, 615 - 668

Abstract: Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA [Students for Fair Admissions] v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC [University of North Carolina] cases, we examine how racial preferences for underrepresented minorities affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC–Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are, on average, over four times higher than if they had been treated as white. For typical Hispanic applicants the increase is 2.4 times. At UNC, in-state African Americans’ admit rate is over 70% higher. For out-of-state applicants, the increase is more than tenfold. At both universities, racial preferences are larger for those from more advantaged backgrounds.

Date: 2023
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