<p>Conyat: good points in post #18...probably wouldn't hurt to have a few Republicans and military veterans among the students and faculty at elite colleges too.</p>
<p>Dennis: I don't know the lady you're talking about, so I can't speak to her situation specifically. But I was a college instructor for 10 years, and I can tell you that the department chairpersons and administrators are very clever in dropping hints about how they'd prefer the grades in general to turn out. I think you're naive if you think that the same administrators who work so hard to get URMs to enroll take their hands completely off the wheel when it comes to grades and dropout rates.</p>