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One dropped out, but almost none would have ever been admitted if grade point averages had been allowed to determine their qualifications.

Ovel Knight, the Senior Class Award winner, is now an intern in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He has co-authored a paper in the journal of Vascular Surgery and earlier this month summed it all up when he said:

"Bakke says he's more qualified than the minority students are on grade points and test scores, and maybe he is. He's probably more qualified than half the whites in our class. But that's not the point--if admissions were based on grade point averages, Med Schools could turn out very intelligent medical computers. But they wouldn't be doctors."

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