There may be other factors behind the program besides the desire to fairly measure students' capabilities. Strivers would give schools a backhanded way of using race-preferences without having to walk the thin, legal line. Such reasoning may fly in the face of a testing program designed to provide an objective portrayal of students' capabilities. Proponents contend, however, that such programs may be the only way to save a system that is slowly dying. But the poor African-American woman from the wrong part of town and the bad school is a different story.
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