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Science 28 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5419, pp. 1473 - 1474
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5419.1473
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EDUCATION POLICY:
The Effects of Affirmative Action

A review by Robert E. Thach

The Shape of the River Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1998. 511 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-00274-6.

The authors and their collaborators provide an in-depth, quantitative assessment of the policies and outcomes of the preferential admission of minority applicants into selective colleges and universities.
The author is Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, Campus Box 1187, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. E-mail: c43000ha{at}wuvmd.wustl.edu

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