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Subject: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 18:12:33 EDT
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> For a time Caltech was rumoured to be lowering their standards just to allow
> more females and blacks to participate.  

Before 1973, Caltech did not admit women at all as regular students.  (I know 
this because they told me so when I was a high school senior.  They also told
me to be flattered that they thought I could apply.)  One might say instead,
that by restricting their admissions to men only for all those years, Caltech 
was lowering their standards of admission by not even considering women.

l s chabot,      who went to a school with a better record for admitting women
		 in spite of being admitted to Caltech