<p>Socioeconomic AA has its merits but achieving representation in college equal to a racial group’s proportion of the general population is not one of them. Numerous studies have shown that White and Asian students who come from families that make less than $10,000 a year still obtain higher high school GPAs and earn SAT scores significantly higher than Black students from homes with annual incomes of over $100,000 a year.</p>
<p>The greatest effect of Socioeconomic AA would be the admission of more children or recent and poor Asian immigrants into colleges and universities. What people would see on a superficial look at college campuses would simply be more Asian students and even fewer Black students and even though the Asian students might be from Socioeconomic backgrounds that are at least as deprived as those of the Black students, the consensus would be the problem has not been solved, but instead made worse because from a racial diversity standpoint ground was lost, not gained, by Black students in relation to Asian students.</p>