About
Anthony Lising Antonio is an Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University and the Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research. He is also the founding faculty director of LifeWorks at Stanford, an undergraduate program for integrative learning. His research focuses on stratification and postsecondary access, racial diversity and its impact on students and institutions, student friendship networks, and student development. Antonio holds a PhD in Higher Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA in Education from UCLA, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Social Science
- Economics
- Law
- Machine Learning
- Social psychology
Selected publications
Science Advances · 2021 · 71 citations
There is substantial evidence of the relationship between household income and achievement on the standardized tests often required for college admissions, yet little comparable inquiry considers the essays typically required of applicants to selective U.S. colleges and universities. We used a corpus of 240,000 admission essays submitted by 60,000 applicants to the University of California in November 2016 to measure relationships between the content of admission essays, self-reported household…
2020 · 32 citations
College admissions in the United States is carried out by a humancentered method of evaluation known as holistic review, which typically involves reading original narrative essays submitted by each applicant. The legitimacy and fairness of holistic review, which gives human readers significant discretion over determining each applicant's fitness for admission, has been repeatedly challenged in courtrooms and the public sphere. Using a unique corpus of 283,676 application essays submitted to a la…
Journal Of Big Data · 2024-09-27 · 29 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorLarge language models have become popular over a short period of time because they can generate text that resembles human writing across various domains and tasks. The popularity and breadth of use also put this technology in the position to fundamentally reshape how written language is perceived and evaluated. It is also the case that spoken language has long played a role in maintaining power and hegemony in society, especially through ideas of social identity and “correct” forms of language.…
Scientometrics · 2024-09-22 · 16 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorAbstract Systematic literature reviews are attempts to understand conversations between researchers working to develop solutions to common problems. These conversations often stretch back decades and can involve the participation of dozens of authors. Traditional approaches to systematic reviews are ill-equipped to make sense of the sheer volume of relevant literature when exploring the emergence and evolution of ambiguous ideas across large knowledge communities. This article presents three inn…
Application essays and the ritual production of merit in US selective admissions
Poetics · 2022 · 16 citations
US colleges and universities are defined by their exclusivity, and the most prestigious schools reject most of those who apply. Yet these same schools also widely advertise their inclusiveness, encouraging students from all backgrounds to submit applications and highlighting evaluation protocols that identify many characteristics worthy of consideration for admission. We surface this paradox and use it as motivation to theorize a little studied component of college applications: personal essays.…
Frequent coauthors
- 17 shared
AJ Alvero
- 11 shared
Ben Gebre-Medhin
Mount Holyoke College
- 11 shared
Sonia Giebel
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- 8 shared
Mitchell L. Stevens
Stanford University
- 8 shared
Benjamin W. Domingue
- 3 shared
Thorsten Joachims
- 3 shared
Alejandra Regla-Vargas
University of Pennsylvania
- 3 shared
Noah Arthurs
Stanford University
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