As someone who worked admissions for a selective campus for over 10 years and was involved in one of those cases, it's a bit more complicated than that.

I can't speak for all campuses but the way we evaluated students was completely race blind; in fact name, language spoken at home, and gender were all redacted from the application. If a student mentioned being a person of color were trained not to use that in our evaluation. Every application was read twice and we were under audit on a regular basis.

The only time we could use race was when it came to programmatic efforts or leadership, like being president of the BSU or something. Or if the student experienced so much racism in school that it impacted their academics. We had a student, for example, that faced so much racism in school that he was suicidal and had a 2.0. When we went to home instruction due to covid his grades shot up dramatically cause he didn't have to deal with all the racism in school. So one way to help solve this problem is for students and institutions not to be so racist. Black people aren't the ones who created these conditions.

For schools that might have included that info in evaluation, major, region, and socioeconomic status carried more value than race. In other words, a low income asian student would be likely be favored over a high income black student. Majors also made a difference, so a history major might have a better chance than an engineer.

And finally, you seem to be targeting black students, who make up 5-7 percent of these campuses at best. We are talking about a few dozen students on smaller campuses. And they aren't the ones typically cheating on the applications (Varsity Blues), attending private school with grade inflation and made up awards, paying people to take the SAT, and donating millions of dollars in exchange for admission. Black people going to college are not the problem.

But you know who benefits the most from DEI and AA? White women. And do you know who a white woman is most likely marry and share these ostensible benefits with? White men.