[craigthedeac]

xorbie:
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I used to be anti-affirmative action, but I've warmed up to it a bit. The problem, basically, is that (for college acceptance, at any rate), there just isn't enough individual attention given to applications to get the benefits of AA without the drawbacks.

I think some very moderate AA along with other more helpful programs is the way to go. GTech, for example, improved its minority student % just using outreach programs, which are more costly but vastly more effective.

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Would you mind going into a bit more detail, especially what you mean by: "there just isn't enough individual attention given to applications to get the benefits of AA without the drawbacks."?

Also, more moderate programs are interesting and relevant to the discussion. Perhaps you could go into more detail there as well.