Affirmative Action Studied, Found Lacking

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Our best estimate is that only about one-third of blacks who start law school in America successfully graduate and pass the bar exam on their first attempt
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Competition mismatch thus appears to have large and damaging effects on the number of blacks, in particular, graduating with science or engineering degrees.
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But if preferences promote substantial social mismatch, then race-conscious admissions actually decrease interracial contact and learning—not only at the school where the preferences are used, but also at the college that the preferenced minority student would have attended in the absence of preferences.
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But the logic of affirmative action efforts has been proven to be flawed. It is an example of good intentions leading to hell. Sooner or later, even its supporters will catch on, although the growth of bureaucratic empires devoted to “diversity” provides a huge, wealthy, and powerful constituency for the continuation of these policies. Regardless of the cost to minorities.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/media_starting_to_panic_over_scotus_review_of_affirmative_action.html

December 10, 2015
Media starting to panic over SCOTUS review of affirmative action
By Thomas Lifson