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Steve Sailer's avatar

But doesn't your assumption depend upon elite colleges acting independently of each other in admissions, when we know historically that they colluded in an anti-competition conspiracy?

The elder Bush's Administration sued Ivy League colleges for collusion: holding an annual conference at which they decided who gets which admits. The Clinton Administration later dropped the suit, but the colleges announced they wouldn't do it anymore.

Can we trust their non-binding declaration?

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Nicholas Halden's avatar

So if the admit cohort is overrepresented in the top 1% of incomes, but shows no difference in mean incomes, for what ranges of incomes are the reject cohort overrepresented relative to the admits? Are the admits overrepresented at the low end of the spectrum as well?

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