We can soar with a meritocratic system

THE recent decision to allocate places at universities based on a racial quota will lead not to a culture of meritocracy but one of mediocrity.

I am a foreign graduate of a local university. I found my professors to be on par with those in the United States, but I found my fellow students to be sub-standard. My graduate class only had 10 students, and only four graduated on time. They were not the scholarship students in the group.