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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Policy Anal Manage. 2014 Sep 29;34(1):162–183. doi: 10.1002/pam.21800

Table 3.

Simulation results: displacement of admission slots.

Percent admitted under

Proxy-based affirmative
action with weight on
predicted likelihood of
being a URM

Traditional
affirmative
action
Passive
affirmative
action ban
0.1 0.6 1.1 1.6 2.1 2.6
All applicants Admitted under traditional affirmative action 100 97 97 98 98 97 96 95
Admitted under passive affirmative action ban 97 100 100 99 97 96 95 94
Not admitted under traditional affirmative action 0 7 7 5 5 6 8 10
Not admitted under passive affirmative action ban 7 0 0 3 5 8 10 12
URM applicants Admitted under traditional affirmative action 100 83 84 87 90 91 91 92
Admitted under passive affirmative action ban 100 100 100 99 99 99 98 98
Not admitted under traditional affirmative action 0 0 0 0 2 7 14 21
Not admitted under passive affirmative action ban 29 0 1 8 15 21 27 33
Non-URM applicants Admitted under traditional affirmative action 100 100 100 100 100 98 97 96
Admitted under passive affirmative action ban 96 100 100 98 97 96 95 94
Not admitted under traditional affirmative action 0 9 8 7 6 6 7 8
Not admitted under passive affirmative action ban 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 6