Table 5.
Estimates of Policy Effects on Admission and Enrollment at UT and TAMU
| Admitted |
Enrolled a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UT-Austin |
TAMU |
UT-Austin |
TAMU |
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| Ind. Variables | (1) | (2) | (3) | (1) | (2) | (3) | (1) | (2) | (3) | (1) | (2) | (3) |
| Group (Whites Ref.) | ||||||||||||
| Hispanics | .032 | .133 | .121 | .123 | .179 | .169 | -.046 | -.092 | -.095 | -.115 | -.154 | -.148 |
| Policy by Group | ||||||||||||
| No Policy(NP) | .115 | .123 | .120 | .059 | .056 | .044 | .061 | .062 | .039 | -.044 | -.048 | -.065 |
| NP × Hisp. | -.110 | -.125 | -.138 | -.160 | -.161 | -.176 | .019 | .030 | .018 | .006 | .013 | .017 |
| Top 10%(TT) | -.003 | -.004 | -.030 | .001 | .003 | -.004 | .058 | .067 | -.014 | .028 | .025 | .008 |
| TT × Hisp. | -.069 | -.081 | -.088 | -.154 | -.156 | -.169 | .026 | .026 | .043 | -.015 | -.011 | -.007 |
| Academics | ||||||||||||
| SAT/ACT b | --- | .010 | .011 | --- | .008 | .009 | --- | -.004 | -.003 | --- | -.004 | -.004 |
| TT Class rank | --- | .282 | .261 | --- | .309 | .274 | --- | -.062 | -.060 | --- | -.014 | -.013 |
| Constant | .717 | -.575 | -.679 | .739 | -.265 | -.415 | .536 | 1.057 | .976 | .618 | 1.107 | 1.120 |
| R2 | .008 | .305 | .326 | .009 | .245 | .259 | .005 | .027 | .106 | .024 | .041 | .045 |
| Controls Included | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| N = | 210,037 | 156,848 | 151,900 | 117,060 | ||||||||
Note: Control variables include sex, class size, percent of high school receiving free or reduced lunch, and public/private status of high school. Indicator variables for students with missing values on each covariate are also included in the regressions.
a
Data excludes students who enrolled but were not granted formal admission (e.g., waitlisted, deferred enrollment), which corresponds to 3 percent of the sample at UT.
b
SAT/ACT are composite scores divided by 10; ACT scores were converted to the SAT scale. Therefore, the estimates represent the average change in the outcome associated with every 10-point increase in test scores along the SAT scale.