<p>“Do you know who affirmative action ultimately benefits anyway? White women.”</p>
<p>In college admissions? In what year are you talking about? While that was probably true several decades ago, it hasn’t been the case for quite some time. Women have made enormous gains and are now over-represented on college campuses OR their admission has been depressed.</p>
<p>As of 2006:
"Two-thirds of colleges and universities report that they get more female than male applicants, and more than 56 percent of undergraduates nationwide are women. Demographers predict that by 2009, only 42 percent of all baccalaureate degrees awarded in the United States will be given to men. "</p>
<p><a href=“Opinion | To All the Girls I've Rejected - The New York Times”>Opinion | To All the Girls I've Rejected - The New York Times;
<p>Affirmative action may have helped our mothers, but their daughters are at a disadvantage.</p>