Given the evidence presented in the SFA vs Harvard case, there is merit to the claim that affirmative action has resulted in qualified candidates being shafted

Given the evidence presented in the SFA vs Harvard case, there is merit to the claim that affirmative action has resulted in qualified candidates being shafted on unfalsifiable traits as a proxy for race. I can't speak for HNers who went to college over the past 17 years, but Gratz vs Bollinger demonstrated that, for a time, undergraduates could be subject to point-based "positive" discrimination on URM status alone.