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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the harm done if someone is denied admission to Harvard (or wherever) and has to attend their well-chosen 'safety'?

There is none.

Anyone who's taken a serious look at college outcomes has found definitively that it's the individual that matters, not the college they attend.

Let Affirmative Action fall. There's nothing in the Constitution that says colleges have to admit students based on test scores and GPAs. Harvard can continue to admit exactly the same students because they want that wide diversity that contributes strongly to their education being so spectacular.

The top students at Harvard's safeties, those who have the ability but weren't admitted for whatever reason, will go on to be just as successful as they would have been if they had a Harvard degree.[/quote]

I shouldn't have made a blanket statement about letting AA fall, because it's obviously still needed in other arenas. I'm just saying it won't change much in college admissions if it's not allowed to be used in that realm.[/quote]

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