College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of … affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT …/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias. Our study investigates the efficacy and equity of college admissions criteria …

This paper uses student-level data to investigate how the college application behavior of underrepresented minorities …

admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor precollege academic preparation. In the United States, those … cannot switch it while in college. Surprisingly, we do not find a larger effect on dropout rates relative to the United … hours taken in the first and second college years, but compensate by taking more credit hours in the final years. …

colleges while leaving overall minority college enrollment rates unchanged. The effect of these bans on racial segregation … minority enrollment and college selectivity. This paper uses variation in the timing of affirmative action bans across states …