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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are more Asian American undergrads at Chapel Hill than at Harvard.

[b]What surprised me about the white plaintiff was that commentary about the lawsuits has been framed in terms of racial discrimination against Asian-Americans.  What the presence of the white plaintiff suggests is that the goal here is really to get rid of race conscious admissions policies designed to give historically under-represented minorities access to elite universities.[/b]  [/quote]

But work done by Tom Espenshade (Princeton) suggests that getting rid of affirmative action really wouldn't change anything for white applicants.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S11/80/78Q19/index.xml?section=newsreleases

[quote]Removing consideration of race would have little effect on white students, the report concludes, as their acceptance rate would rise by merely 0.5 percentage points. Espenshade noted that when one group loses ground, another has to gain -- in this case it would be Asian applicants. Asian students would fill nearly four out of every five places in the admitted class not taken by African-American and Hispanic students[/quote]

Now, granted at places like UNC and flagship state schools things would be different because racial demographics are widely different in various states.

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