Word: quota
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...surface, it may look as if the Admissions Office sets a quota on the number of Asian-Americans annually admitted to the College. After all, statistics reveal that during the last 10 years. Asian Americans have typically scored 20 points or more than other applicant groups on SATs and other standardized tests. Studies also show that the number of college-age Asian-American applicants has increased every year during the last decade. With an expanding pool of highly qualified candidates, the number of Asian-Americans accepted should show a parallel rise. And yet, the percentage of Asian-Americans at Harvard...
...took over the presidency of Radcliffe in 1972, students were beginning to wonder what would happen to the institution and its students. A year earlier Radcliffe had merged housing with Harvard and many feared Radcliffe would soon be absorbed completely. At the same time there was heightened activism over quotas on women admits-a majority of the Class of 1972 wore red armbands at Commencement to protest the quota...
...eyes of too many, I am not a full-fledged member of this University who was admitted on the basis of his credentials, but rather part of a racial quota: part of Harvard's attempt to create a diverse student body, andhumor those 'legacies' who really belong here,"the letter from the Currier House resident reads...
More than half the foreign students remain in the U.S., which thereby enjoys the fruits of an overseas brain drain. Still, many U.S. universities are closing the door. The University of Illinois' graduate engineering program, for example, has a 20% quota for foreign students. Responding to pressure from state legislators, Berkeley Engineering Dean Karl Pister admits, "We have tried, in a systematic way, to trim down the number of foreign students" -- to 37% from last year...
Iraq, locked in a 7-year-old war with Iran, is not expected to sign the agreement because it wants to raise its production quota to Iran...