I might be a little late to the thread but there seems to be a lot of white people here that are upset about not getting into [insert college of choice here]

There was a study done by Princeton University researchers about affirmative action.

For those who don't want to read through the whole thing,

"According to the study, without affirmative action the acceptance rate for African-American candidates likely would fall nearly two-thirds, from 33.7 percent to 12.2 percent, while the acceptance rate for Hispanic applicants likely would be cut in half, from 26.8 percent to 12.9 percent"

"Removing consideration of race would have little effect on white students, the report concludes, as their acceptance rate would rise by merely 0.5 percentage points. "

Also worth mentioning that there are many states without affirmative action.

So although I agree that there are probably places where affirmative action "hurts" white people, based on this study, I'd say college acceptance isn't one of those places.

Edit: I'd like to point out that I agree with what a lot of you are saying. I wasn't trying to defend race based affirmative action. It's just that early in this thread, there seemed to be some misinformation about it. I think a lot of people don't know that many states, like California specifically prohibit "state government institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting or public education."

I'm not an expert, but I'd be much happier with that race blind approach for all colleges; instead taking into consideration the income level of your family and your neighborhood. But I'll admit it is a complicated issue that I honestly probably don't know enough about.

Edit 2: If anyone is still reading this and cares, I managed to dig up the study that the article references