caa a22 4500 47712240X CHVBK 20180405111640.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02197250 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02197250 Conley Patricia Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 601 University Place, 60208-1006, Evanston, Illinois aut Local justice in the allocation of college admissions: A statistical study of beliefs versus practice [Elektronische Daten] [Patricia Conley] This study examines admission decisions at a highly selective private university. A statistical analysis of 300 admission decisions is used to compare admissions officers' beliefs about how the admissions process works with their actual pattern of decisions. As a group, the officers underestimate the effect of applicant race, gender, alumni status, and athletic ability on their academic and personality ratings and final admission decisions. Individual officers place different weights on the decision-making criteria, with the model explaining less variation in the ratings of officers with more years of experience. The comparison of beliefs with practice has implications for evaluating the distributive and procedural fairness of the college admissions process. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 college admission nationallicence consistency nationallicence discretion nationallicence justice nationallicence judgment nationallicence Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 239-258 0885-7466 9:3<239 1996 9 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197250 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197250 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Conley Patricia Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 601 University Place, 60208-1006, Evanston, Illinois aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 9/3(1996-09-01), 239-258 0885-7466 9:3<239 1996 9 11211 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer