Ivy Vs Non Ivy

tokenadult
Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:02:02 +0000

Here’s a link to a criticism of the study (see footnote 27).

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/aidpaper.pdf

I don’t believe the study’s oft-cited general conclusion, which you mentioned in your thread-opening post. Even that general conclusion, according to the results of the study, has an exception: a low-income student is best off going to the most elite college that will admit that student. I think that result, generalized to more students, is actually more plausible than the usual proposition for which the study is cited. The study is badly in need of replication on a new data set and further analysis of its methodology.