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> 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
by crackercrews 4y ago
> 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?
- Manuel_D 4y agoI 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 http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/dropout.pdf