<p>“Most elite colleges probably have enrollment of about 7% African American”</p>
<p>Actually it’s higher, in most years 9% of the entering classes at schools like Yale and Harvard are African-American. </p>
<p>Add to this (which you conveniently overlook) is another 6 to 8% of hispanic URMs and a small amount of native americans (approx 1%) </p>
<p>Bottom line is approx 1 in 6 students at the elites enter via URM status and they have (on an aggregate group basis) far lower objectively measurable stats than the typical accepted student.</p>
<p>Now as for the legacy issue, it turns out that legacies (as much as the pro-AA proponents love to talk about them) - have raw stats at the elites relative to the entering class that generally tend to be right in the norm - often better. </p>
<p>However it schools want to dump ANY advantage for legacies (e.g relative to to other applicants) and also drop race-based admissions - then that would be a net plus</p>