Have you, or anyone else that you know of, actually examined the question of King's grades relative to the grades of the people around him? It seems to me that a part of the question of whether he was being patronized or given a pass would hinge on a comparison with other people doing similar quality work as well as other people getting similar grades (they may or may not be strongly overlapping sets; if they are, then it weakens the case that his professors were treating him differently).
by Jonathan Dresner on December 21, 2004 at 5:04 AM