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May 7, 2019

Each of us has much to be modest about

I once made a mistake assessing students — not the first time, probably not the last time.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

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I once made a mistake assessing students -- not the first time, probably not the last time. I stereotyped a set of students, albeit positively and not invidiously. I remarked to a colleague that the handful of law students who enrolled after careers in other disciplines, such as STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) or medicine, should do very well, since the assumption, warranted or not, is that their prior subject of study was more difficult than t...

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