Quotes about Admission Policy

Michael J. Knowles

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

John Dunne

An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.

Shafie Salleh

I will never allow non-Bumiputra students to enter Universiti Teknologi Mara. I will not compromise on this matter.

Bumiputra refers for Malay Muslims as opposed to Malasyan Citizens of Chinese and Indian Extraction of which there are sizable minorities of each. Incredibly enough such ethnic discrimination is legal so long as it discriminates against Indians or Chinese who are officially and legally 2nd class citizens in this predominantly Muslim nation.

Woodrow Wilson

It is altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter Princeton.

Wilson has been accused of being one of the most racist Presidents since Reconstruction. Even before he was a Governor and a President and presumably had to cater to Southern racist members of Congress, he was a committed racist. Prior to his Presidency, the Federal Government had been making steady progress in hiring African Americans. Under Wilson there was a wholesale firing of a large proportion of them. Some apologists argue that his League of Nations and other major aspirations required the votes and cooperation of Southern Senators who insisted that many of the blacks be terminated. At the same time, the KKK was near the zenith of its membership and political power and was an intimidating force. Wilson’s home state of New Jersey not only had a large KKK membership but there were lynching of Blacks in his own state and when Governor and President he never asked for any anti-lynching legislation.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Constance Baker Motley

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Angela Rayner

Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.

Chuck Palahniuk

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Thomas E. Dewey

It is the policy of the state [of New York] that the American ideal of equality of opportunity requires that students ... be admitted to educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin.

Admission Policy Quotes