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...profound questions about meritocracy. At their heart, the cases ask us to reexamine our beliefs about what constitutes merit, and whether any sort of merit that can be measured numerically translates into moral desert. In other words, can we say that a given candidate, even one with a perfect GPA and LSAT score, deserves or is entitled to a spot at Michigan Law School? Or is merit more instrumental—a construct that can be manipulated to serve an institution’s goals? Can the definition of merit be expanded to include race, or must we say that...
Blair Hornstine ’07 attained the highest grade point average (GPA) in her class at Moorestown High School in New Jersey...
...currently, the office is working hard to finish up changes in the grading system—recalculating each student’s GPA to conform to a four-point scale and notifying each student of this change...
High school senior Blair Hornstine bagged a 4.689 GPA while classmate Kenneth Mirkin clocked in right behind with 4.634. But their school’s attempt to give both students—who will be entering Harvard as members of the Class of 2007 this fall—the title of valedictorian has prompted Hornstine to sue, claiming the school was discriminating against her as a disabled person...
...exempted from physical education classes due to an immune deficiency that left her chronically fatigued, and she was therefore able to rack up classes that counted more toward her GPA...