Profiling in Bargaining Over College Tuitions ∗ Dennis Epple Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Richard Romano University of Florida Sinan Sarpca Koc University Holger Sieg Carnegie Mellon University and NBER January 11, 2006 * We would like to thank the editor of the journal and an anonymous referee for many helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Larry Blume, Maria Ferreyra, Charles Manski, Michael Peress, James Poterba, Larry Samuelson, Chris Taber, and Richard Zeckhauser, as well as partic- ipants at the symposium on “Social Interactions in Profiling” at Northwestern University and the NBER Public Economics Meeting for comments and suggestions. We would also like to thank Bill Elliott, Vice President for Enrollment, and Michael Steidel, Director of Admissions, at Carnegie Mellon University for providing us with the data used in this paper and for valuable discussions of the admission process. Financial support for this research is provided by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.