The Heterogeneity of the Response to Proposition 16

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The US is such an outlier. Almost every other country it's a test. The non-test track is known for favor the rich. I think that universities are underestimating the long-term dangers to higher education in the United States if opinion about universities becomes so polarized half of the countries hates them and wants to take them down.

Peter Arcidiacono is an economist at Duke University and an expert on affirmative action. Arcidiacono served as an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) in SFFA v. Harvard.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Peter Arcidiacono discuss the role that racial preferences have played in the admissions processes of elite American universities in recent decades; the workarounds that universities are likely to use in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision; and why real progress for less privileged students will require fundamental changes that look beyond the admissions practices of a few elite universities.

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