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Why is it not the same thing, other than AA says it's illegal to use race?
The right of an applicant “to equal consideration” is totally disregarded if race is part of that.
I think this pretty much nails it...
In the 1970s, while campuses were embroiled in debate about how to increase African-Americans and women on the faculty, universities were also putting into effect schemes to increase minority presence within the student body. Very selective universities, in particular, needed new initiatives because only a handful of African-American and Hispanic high school students possessed test scores and grades good enough to make them eligible for admission. These institutions faced a choice: retain their admissions criteria unchanged and live with the upshot—hardly any African-Americans and Hispanics on campus—or fiddle with their criteria to get a more substantial representation. Most elected the second path.
A lowering of standards and in some cases quota's.
It is not needed. Minority's can do just as well without the white mans handouts. We can make it on our own merits.