Do any of you arguing know how flawed affirmative action is? It's to increase representation of another group not on merit but primarily on race. Affirmative Action should help people LESS FORTUNATE but ENTIRELY QUALIFIED BASED ON MERIT, so basically people from a demographic area with a history of under representation. If person A and person B were of the same merit but person B went through more hardships due to race then person B should be the beneficiary. Problem with affirmative action is it doesn't take these factors into account, just race. UCLA and other high ranking schools used to give points based on race during their admissions process. They stopped doing that in 1998 in California for Universities and guess what admittance of blacks and latinos dropped. The number has rounded back out now in California but that's because students are getting in based on merit and not race prior. Race based admissions/considerations isn't fair at all if you honestly think about it, trying to get rid of racism by institutionalizing it?