<p>ID I think your remark that the Dean of Admissions at Pton who came from Swat was unfairly flamed by your post that his “discriminatory practices set a tone for two decades.” In fact, Karabel’s book The Chosen (BTW a great read) documents the discriminatory practices at H, Y and P during the last 100 years and most of the egregious sins occurred before Hargadon’s administration at P. In fact, P at 9.6% freshmen class being African American (for example) is the highest in the Ivys and a goal for Swat to shoot for. Moreover, under Hargadon’s watch P dropped all loans as part of their financial aid package and that single act probably was the greatest outreach for economic diversity in recent history in American higher education. Yes, he was criticized (a requirement of his personal sign off on each applicant and a scandal involving sneak peaks on Y’s admission list on the Internet are the ones most commonly cited) but discrimination is not a fair or accurate criticism of his reign.</p>