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VAN de ZILVER v. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Civil Action No. 97-806.

971 F.Supp. 925 (1997)

John F. VAN de ZILVER, Jr., Plaintiff, v. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

August 1, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen A. Etish, John A. Zohlman, III, Kenney & Kearney, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Plaintiff.

Gavin J. Rooney, Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan, A Professional Corporation, Roseland, NJ, for Defendant, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, Katherine L. Suga, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Bindi S. Chandarana, Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey, State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Law, Newark, NJ, for Defendants, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Dr. David Seiden.

OPINION

ORLOFSKY, District Judge.

This case requires this Court to decide whether a University's decision not to admit a student to its medical school based upon the faculty's evaluation of the student's academic record and certain "noncognitive factors that [cannot] be easily assessed from transcripts, standardized test scores or ... letters of recommendation" may be overturned by this Court. After carefully reviewing the undisputed material facts of

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