From Peter Arcidiacono and Michael Lovenheim’s paper “Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff” : [B]lack applicants in 2002 were admitted to Michigan’s law school at a slightly higher rate than white students, 26.9% to 23.3%, despite the average academic index of black applicants being around 1.5 standard deviations lower than the mean white applicant. More […]
