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We thank Jennifer Hill and Matt Serra in Duke University's Office of Assessment for their assistance with collecting academic and demographic data and for running many of the statistical tests for us. Additional thanks go to our raters: Arielle Cooley, Whitney Jones, Laura Simmons Kovacs, Tami McDonald, Cary Moskovitz, Kathryn Perez, Andrew Procter, Amy Sayle, and Robin Smith. J.A.R. thanks the American Society of Microbiology's Biology Scholars Program (National Science Foundation Award 0715777) for helping her develop her research ideas. Funding for this project was provided through the Duke Endowment.

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