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...question of admissions practices is difficult, as the ostensibly objective criteria of test scores and grades are never the sole determinants. The Court should not impinge on the flexibility of schools desiring a varied class make-up. Nevertheless, the use of race as a factor in admissions circumvents what should be the true intent of affirmative action programs: helping disadvantaged individuals overcome environmental liabilities. Opening up compensatory programs to those individuals who no longer suffer the disadvantages of historic repression does little good for those who still do. Programs such as U.D. Davis Med School's quota system...
...thousands of institutions across the country, by implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic record. In view of the inequality of opportunity still present in this country, that is a highly disturbing implication...
...decision in favor of Bakke would open the door to a multitude of lawsuits by students who believe they have been wronged by admissions officers who use criteria other than grades and test scores. Such a decision would discourage admissions committees from examining the roles that the students they select will play in a multi-racial society in need of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds. Even if it would not dissuade institutions from seeking qualified minority students, a decision for Bakke would deprive universities of the recruiting benefits that result from minority admissions programs, which for many minority...
...imagine this change will make it any easier to make the transfer process fair." John W. Hastings, master of North House, said Monday. Possibly to avoid this type of competition, some masters have decided to choose randomly among applicants similar to one another under Spence's criteria. To make selection easier. Spence will provide each transfer applicant with a random number...
Keenan says that the method of record keeping used by the graduate school makes an exact estimate of how well Harvard Ph.D.'s are faring in the job market impossible. Each department compiles its own study, and each uses its own criteria to determine what constitutes job placement. (In one department work as a bank officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because...