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We're Not Wrong

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The Impact of Affirmative Action on College Admissions

The case originated from Harvard discriminating against Asian people. If you're allowed to take race into account, it can also be used to discriminate against people. When they stopped doing them at Amherst, legacies fell from 11% to 6%. And then the they got to the highest ever percentage of kids that were first generation and college 19%. So I mean, that would make a big difference for people just money wise.

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