A University Uses Quotas to Limit and Diversify Its Foreign Enrollments

By ROBIN WILSON

One of the top Ph.D. students in chemistry at the University of Tennessee almost didn't make it into graduate school here -- not because of his qualifications, but because he is foreign.

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