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<p>Eh…SOMETIMES profs pay for some of the funding PhD students receive.</p>
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<p>Please point to the quote in which I make such a claim. I don’t think you’ll be able to. I have said very little about funding. What I’ve said is that minority applicants are often considered for specific funding sources for which non-minority students are ineligible. I never said ANYTHING about professors taking some of their research money to fund “a minority over a more qualified applicant simply due to diversity.” </p>
<p>Now, I actually think that such a situation is not impossible. It’s easy for me to envision a tenured professor with multiple grants who feels that their field needs to be diversified in some way going so far as to fully fund a minority student who perhaps may not be as qualified as a non-minority student said tenured professor turned away at the admissions level.</p>