> I think the correct move here is not to go full-on "merit-based access", but change the affirmative action to be based on socio-economic status. Boom, you jus

> I think the correct move here is not to go full-on "merit-based access", but change the affirmative action to be based on socio-economic status. Boom, you just solved the issue the race-based AA was claiming to address, but by going directly to the source of the problem (socio-economic inequality). Also move the efforts down the prestige ladder. Affirmative action at Harvard does diddly-squat do address anything except allow Harvard to signal its own virtue. Society would be much better served to take a large fraction of Harvard's endowment, and use it to send disadvantaged kids to state land-grant colleges. You could help a lot more of them, and they'd be less likely to flame out to do culture clash and/or relative lack of preparation.