It's not low hanging fruit by any means. I'm guessing it would raise the Asian American population by 10s of % at all the top tier schools. The set of students

It's not low hanging fruit by any means. I'm guessing it would raise the Asian American population by 10s of % at all the top tier schools. The set of students who are both poor and almost meets Ivy League standards is most likely very Asian. IIRC, universities have made the argument that financial affirmative action would not work for racial diversity (implicitly because few poor students who do well are black or Hispanic). Generally, this set is competing with the privileged black and Hispanic students who under perform compared to their socioeconomic background. Removing affirmative action would displace almost exclusively rich Hispanic and black elites with a mix of poor Asians and some rich Asian/white elites.