<p>I think the initial idea behind AA was a good one, but i'm not so sure that it's living up to its intended result.</p>
<p>Consider for a moment: If a single middle class black person and a single middle class white person went to the same elementary school, had the same family income and financial background, and were for all intents and purposes entirely equal economically and educationally, would colleges after seeing this information during admissions still give extra merit to the black person's test scores over the white's?</p>
<p>I'm guessing yes, they would, but maybe someone else has some facts to support or deny that. There seems to be a correlation between income and education, so one would assume that a large portion of the blacks applying to the top colleges come from middle to high class income families (as I believe is also true for whites). If that is also true, wouldn't these select blacks essentially have the exact same educational opportunities as whites whose families fall into that same income bracket?</p>
<p>That being the case, it seems that AA with colleges is having about the opposite effect that it was intended to. Instead of giving opportunities to the impoverished minorities who truly need them, it is instead, for a large part, giving them to wealthy minorities who it would appear already have the financial and deducational advantage as the average white person. Thoughts?</p>