This article and study seems to be wrongly conflating "opportunity" with "outcome". They have the same or even more of an opportunity to enter college and succe

This article and study seems to be wrongly conflating "opportunity" with "outcome". They have the same or even more of an opportunity to enter college and succeed than anybody: they're just not getting the same outcome. > Similar effects exist for students with other types of admissions preferences. A study conducted at Duke University found that legacy students — those who received preferential treatment in admissions because a parent or grandparent graduated from Duke — also abandoned highly quantitative majors because of mismatch effects. Their collective drift away from the sciences cannot be explained by anti-legacy bias, lack of legacy role models, or any other explanations commonly offered to explain minority students’ attrition from science majors. Preparation gaps appear to be, by far, the bigger factor. Wow, so it appears that middling-IQ legacy students are just not smart enough to hack it in positions they didn't earn, and attempting to artificially place them in roles they didn't earn through merit is a tremendously dumb waste that causes needless problems and social division. But why can't people who get into college through race-preferential admissions succeed? It remains a complete and utter mystery.