Princeton Says Kilson Article Contains Inaccurate Statistics

Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, came under sharp attack yesterday from Princeton University and a former Harvard professor for alleged inaccuracies in his recent New York Times Magazine article on black students at Harvard.

Neil L. Rudenstein, dean of the college at Princeton University, in a letter mailed to both Kilson and The Times, said that Kilson's analysis and conclusions suffer from serious inaccuracies and a lack of adequate context in their references to Princeton.

In his September 9 article, Kilson said that top educational institutions in the U.S. had "politicized" their admissions procedures and had lowered their qualifications for blacks.

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Kilson cited Princeton as a university "where academic performance is poor among blacks and the freshman dropout rate is an astronomical 32 per cent."

Rudenstein wrote. "None of the Registrar's data bear any resemblance to Professor Kilson's figures." He said that the attrition rate for black freshmen for the last three classes has ranged from 2.0 to 7.9 per cent.

The Princeton dean also defended the university's admission of blacks with SAT scores in the 400s. He said that increasing educational opportunities for minority