Are university admissions academically fair?

High-profile universities often face public criticism for undermining academic merit and promoting social elitism/engineering through their admissions-process. In this paper, we develop an empirical test for whether access to selective universities is meritocratic. We assume that students who are be...

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Main Authors: Bhattacharya, D, Kanaya, S, Stevens, M
Formato: Working paper
Publicado: University of Oxford 2012