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...think it's indisputable from the University of California data in general," Thernstrom said. "The merit system favors high GPAs and SATs and Asians tend to do well in those categories...
...This is a relatively new thing American higher education, and about 34 years ago, it didn't exist at all," Thernstrom says. "It's better than a totally subjective questionnaire.[The CUE] has scientific merit...
...told the Times. "You have mobility so people with talents can be put to the best use. Without the estate tax, you in effect will have an aristocracy of wealth, which means you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit...
...whatever grade inflation may exist at Harvard and what purpose it serves, if any. To be sure, if grade inflation exists, and I believe it does, it does a disservice to the undergraduate community. The fact remains that grade inflation devalues the efforts of those students who truly merit an "A" and gives those who do not deserve such a grade an inaccurate impression of the value of their work. All of this, though, has already been discussed and debated throughout this week...
Small-scale changes to the College's rules--like administrators' recent decision to ban kegs at future Harvard-Yale football games--do not merit much attention as indicators of a larger ideological crackdown, Lewis argues...