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...UCLA Law Review article, Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom wrote that Asian-Americans gained the most from Proposition 209, a 1996 statewide referendum which effectively ended affirmative action in California public educational institutions...
...Thernstrom said he had not yet read Kidder's study, but he said he still stands by his claim that Asian-American enrollment has increased substantially since "the abolition of preference...
...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...
...Though Thernstrom did not attach his theories to Harvard's system, other professors are much more adamant about the CUE Guide's potential influence on tenure decisions...
...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...