@ELopez you are probably technically right, but I think AA has become more than that in practice. I was on U of Maryland’s website earlier today and they say on their website that they take socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity into consideration in admissions decisions. They don’t say “we follow what AA was exactly created for”. So while maybe AA was not MEANT exactly the way schools execute it, I think the scope of it has become a lot more than African Americans. So maybe we can’t call it AA technically anymore because of that, but I think AA has become the catchall. And from I can tell, other URM’s benefit from AA, not just African Americans. If they didn’t, I don’t think we’d have some much activity on this thread.