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...Professor Chaplin’s memo is related to grade inflation in the sense that is raises questions about exactly how generously we should grade our students,” said Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom...
Harvard history professor Stephan Thernstrom, whose 1998 inquiry about racial preferencing at UMass-Amherst indirectly prompted the new study, said many New England schools are guilty of using a racial double standard...
...Harvard practices very little, if any, racial preferencing because it has such a phenomenal applicant pool, that’s not typical. Most schools don’t have such a strong applicant pool, so there are some students who get in because of their race,” Thernstrom said...
According to Thernstrom, racial preferencing in college admissions affirms instead of rejects racial stereotypes. Certain minority groups have higher dropout rates than white students, which Thernstrom attributes to the placement of minority students into the wrong schools because of racial preferencing...
...It’s not good when members of an identifiable minority are also overrepresented in the students who are doing poorly academically. Of course, there are minority students who are just as qualified as whites, but many of those admitted by racial preferencing are not,” Thernstrom said...