... a particular institution to shape admissions by the preferential treatment of certain social groups, then admittees from non-preferred social groups will be especially better qualified. For example, let's say that School X has one hundred slots available for new applicants, but has reserved twenty of those slots only for minorities. The other eighty slots are open for the top eighty applicants without ... regard to race. Admission to School X does not depend on being in the top one hundred applicants, as it did before affirmative action, but now on being in the top eighty. Lowering stan...

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