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Some affirmative action statistics:
A study shown concluded that if there was no affirmative action at the University of Michigan, the plaintiff's chance of being admitted to the UM would only increased by a very small fraction of a percent. They also compared data from the University of California-Berkeley before and after the California law prohibiting affirmative action. The conclusion? If you were black, your chance of getting into Berkeley plummeted, while once again, if you were white, your chance of getting in only increased by some tiny fraction of a percent. Furthermore, they studied those students who went to college because of affirmative action policies and found that they went onto grad school and professional schools at a significantly higher rate than the kids who would have replaced them had there been no affirmative action. Those who got in via AA also did far more community service and contributed to their communities far more often than those who would have replaced them without AA.
That's why I'm saying that high school grades and test scores shouldn't matter THAT much. If I had two potential students, a white kid with a 3.9 and a black kid with a 3.5, but I know that the white kid will just graduate from college and spend the rest of his life doing nothing but managing a Walmart, whereas the black kid will go to law school and do lifelong volunteer work teaching underprivileged kids to read -- of course I'm going to pick the black kid.
Grades and test scores don't tell the whole story.
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