He tells this story in a rather different way from the history of ETS , with an emphasis on the role of some activists , lawyers and others , who entered college and university at a time when meritocratic considerations were not yet affected in a major way by racial considerations , and when a number of young Japanese- and Chinese-Americans had opportunities to attend elite schools they would probably have not been able to in the pre-meritocratic age .
Whenever he tells the story , it is identical to the official record of the history of ETS .