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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by crackercrews on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:56PM (#33446408)
> They'll also probably save a lot of money, since changing majors partway through usually means that these students take 5 or 6 years to graduate.

They would also graduate with a STEM major, which would likely enable more lucrative career options.

> this is the claim of some recent research

It looks like this working paper is over a decade old. Was it published recently?

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Re:American society is so focused on race that it is blind t... by Manuel_D on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:11PM (#33446518)
I thought it was published in 2019 - apparently it was actually 2009. The author worked on a similar piece of research in 2016 and concludes that Bar pass rates would be higher without affirmative action: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/dropout.pdf
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