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<p>You are the one not taking everything into context. Minorities have significantly lower SATs, and I cited this. Also, the UVA study desertman cited shows that their GPAs are significantly lower as well. This is not to say that all minorities fall into this category but rather that the average URM is held to much lower standards than the average white/Asian student. I have no problem with colleges adherence to such affirmative action with truly disadvantaged students. The problem is when some black or Hispanic student who has been given all the same economic and educational opportunities as an advantaged white applicant uses his race to make up for his lack of intelligence and talent and thus undermines the intellectual community of the college, adding nothing but color. Moreover, disadvantaged white and Asian applicants are not given their due affirmative action. College should, for these reasons, allocate affirmative action on a socioeconomic basis. They, however, cannot do this because the decisively inferior stats of blacks and Hispanics would leave the campuses colorless.</p>