<p>I am pro diversity, and don’t mind some thoughtful AA to get there. I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the original bake sale analogy. I aslo don’t understand this one;</p>
<p>Let’s assume that a college acceptance letter from Berkeley is worth an amount of money, value, etc. Let’s say $1. Let’s say a rejection letter is worth 0. Therefore, if you discriminate by race through AA and give out acceptance letters to people of color with “lesser stats” then you are showing that you value them more than the people you reject by giving the people of color something that is worth $1 more. This shows that affirmative action by race directly does make whites and Asians “worth less” by valuing their similar accomplishments less and giving them no recognition of value (and giving them a 0 value rejection letter) as apposed to the colored individual who you designate as “worth more” by giving them a valuable piece of paper (the acceptance). So yes, while not the best of examples I agree, the bake sale does actually directly and very accurately parallel affirmative action. "</p>
<p>Do you know how many URM’s got rejected? Maybe it doesn’t matter if it is worth 0 points. If not many of a group apply, how does that get factored in? If we just added up how many of each race got accepted, wouldn’t that mean thousands of Asians and whites and hundreds of blacks? Even if you decided a white or Asian admission letter was worth a negative value, wouldn’t the points STILL add up to way more for whites and Asians? No, I guess not.</p>
<p>I think the analogy works better if you think of it as supply and demand as there is in any other business. There just aren’t enough chocolate cup cakes to go around. Even if you include the “good enough” ones.</p>