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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here, time to chime in since this is a topic I actually know a lot about.

The real issue isn't the end of race-based preferences, it's what kind of socio-economic admission preferences replace it.

One big difference between CA and a lot of other states that have moved from race-based preferences to socio-economic preferences is that they give preference based on income, but don't take family wealth into account. The results are very clear that if you take family wealth into account (African Americans at the same income level as whites tend to have a staggering amount less family wealth, due to a really fucking sad history stretching back to red-lining, Jim Crow, etc.), AfAms continue into a college system at similar rates, but if you just look at income when determining a family's SES you lose them.

When a system is properly set up (taking both income and wealth into account) to provide race-blind preferences based on SES, what generally happens is that AfAm and Latino enrollment rates remain about the same, white enrollment rates drop, Asian/Jewish enrollment rates rise.

In other words, the system as it exists today gives major unearned privileges to white people. What a shock.

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Some good points there, but your obvious agenda seems to blind you in one important aspect. True, AfAm and Latino enrollment rates remain about the same, but its composition changes. Fewer (relatively unqualified) children of doctors and lawyers, more (truly qualified) first generation college students.

Guess who likes this? Those new students and their families, and also the white students who get to enjoy more real diversity.

Guess who doesn't like it? Black doctors and lawyers, and their children (who now have to compete on equal terms with everyone else)[/quote]

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