This is the case in many institutions, especially ones with higher academic standings, across the nation. As a result, many affirmative action students, unable to keep up academically with their peers who are higher up on the academic ladder, struggle to survive, perform poorly, and even drop out. In California, the highly controversial Proposition 209 that banned all racial preferences has been in effect for over two years now. While top-notch schools did see a decline in minority students, the dropout rate for these students also declined, in effect nullifying the first decline. Some of the University of California deans have started admitting that ending preferences has pushed them towards a fairer admissions policy.
Affirmative action is racism, pure and simple, and actually hinders race relations.
If you have two people in for a job, one of whom is a member of a 'targeted minority', and the white male is clearly superior but they both meet minimal qualifications like having a Ph.D., you have to thake the minority person, and that's not acceptable. Connerly pushed the hardest for race-neutral college admissions, largely under the guise that racial preference is wrong and unconstitutional no matter who is being discriminated against. Racial and ethnic discrimination is reprehensible, morally indefensible and destructive of the most fundamental values of a democracy. It seems ironic that if people were shown only this last quote, universally most would agree with it. We also believe that affirmative action, with its policy of racial preferences, is also reprehensible and unconstitutional.