The problem with affirmative action is - its transitive.
If not the most capable applicant is choosen, instead by another criteria (e.g. race) then all who search the most capable outcome of research or education (for example a capable doctor) are forced to engage in what can only be described a racist filter to find the capable applicant.
Affirmative action ever treated the symptom. What i would recommend, is a proportional study place system.
Every "group" gets places, proportional to its representation in the public population. If this group has not enough capable applicants, due to societal wrongs (bad schools in the inner citys), all other groups are shrunk down by the same percentage, to encourage investment into the source of the problem.
If not the most capable applicant is choosen, instead by another criteria (e.g. race) then all who search the most capable outcome of research or education (for example a capable doctor) are forced to engage in what can only be described a racist filter to find the capable applicant.
Affirmative action ever treated the symptom. What i would recommend, is a proportional study place system. Every "group" gets places, proportional to its representation in the public population. If this group has not enough capable applicants, due to societal wrongs (bad schools in the inner citys), all other groups are shrunk down by the same percentage, to encourage investment into the source of the problem.