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...points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work—he shows that AI is a poor indicator of one’s expected performance in college...
...Lincoln is quick to point out that the Bowen who was the co-author of the Game of Life would disagree with that stance. The Bowen who was the co-author of an earlier work The Shape of the River, which dealt with minority admissions, would have praised Lincoln’s conclusion wholeheartedly. And Lincoln pounces on this apparent hypocrisy...
...Lincoln wasn’t satisfied with ripping into the conclusions reached by Bowen and Shulman. He went further, questioning whether the impact that the Game of Life had on the Ivy presidents was based on the evidence presented in the work or whether it had something to do with Bowen’s position as the head of the Mellon Foundation—an organization that gives hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Ivy institutions. Could Bowen’s influence over Ancient Eight schools have less to do with the content of his works and more...
...loved it here,” Copple says of Harvard. “I was actually pissed off to come back to Lincoln, even after only being there a week...
...both the doctor who examined him in Boston and at home in Lincoln suggested that Copple was unlikely to make it through the season in his current state. He had surgery last Thursday and is recovering quickly. But college, along with Crimson football, will have to wait for another year, much to Copple’s chagrin...