<p>I think its more about supply and demand. Colleges don’t automatically add points to an applicants SAT scores just because they’re minority status. Thats not how college admissions works. Colleges are seek to matriculate a certain amont of minorities so that they can have a diverse student body. So if they do not have enough minorites in an applicant pool their acceptance rate for that group goes up. That is why according to JBHE, Middlebury accepts seventy percent of all black students that apply. So, affirmative action at most schools exists simply because colleges want to matriculate minorities, while there simply aren’t enough minorities applying. </p>
<p>The answer to your question is that it depends on which colleges you are applying to. If you apply to a school like Harvard, being a minority won’t help you as much as if you applied to a school like Middlebury, because Harvard gets so many applications from qualified minorities.</p>