Comments on "Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities"
Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University has been publishing a steady stream of papers examining the role of race in college admissions, with a particular focus on the effects of affirmative action. I've discussed his work on this blog before , and given the substantial attention that generated, I'm sharing thoughts on another relatively new piece. In the new paper , Peter and his colleagues suggest that friendships among students attending selective universities are no more likely to be interracial in composition than friendships in high school. Of persistent racial segregation, they write: "This is particularly true for blacks where on average their share of friends who are of another race is no higher in college than in high school despite their colleges having a much smaller share of black students than their high schools. However, the extent of interracial friendships, both before and during college, vary significantly depending on academic preparedness. The percentage ...