<p>That’s a pretty decent point, dude.</p>
<p>The second part. The part about socioeconomic affirmative action is incorrect. Socioeconomic affirmative action primarily benefits poor whites. Which is not the point of affirmative action.</p>
<p>You try to assert that AA makes a degree seem illegitimate, but as you indicate, AA only gets a student into a school; it does not affect his performance. So the idea that there’s an impression that minorities earn degrees with that help is false.</p>
<p>Those examples are cases of affirmative action taken to imprudent extremes. Law schools should pay more attention to the competence of the individuals they admit, not necessarily eliminate AA.</p>
<p>Besides, URM graduation rates at colleges are pretty darned close to those of other groups. At the collegiate level, mismatch is not an actual problem.</p>