<p>^-- this post is interesting and insightful, but you do one thing that's often done and confuses the issue. Saying that race tips the scales sometimes and influences admissions decisions is very far away from saying some unqualified people are admitted. You can quite easily have the first without having the second, and indeed you do.</p>
<p>The fact that nobody gets in who is actually incompetent to do the work, taken alone, does not say much about affirmative action or fairness or any of that good stuff.</p>