I thought some more about "your" term Affirmative Action Salvation (AAS) and here's what I think about it.
Affirmative action that we are all familiar with is it refers to policies that take factors including "race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination (per Wikipedia). So, in your mind, AAS must mean people get to go to heaven NOT based on their qualifications, abilities, sinlessness or merit, but just because ___, right? So, this tells me that you must believe that non-AAS is the only correct view since it IS based upon a person's qualification, abilities, sinlessness and merit. Follow me so far?
The problem I see in your non-AAS scenario is that it does not agree with what GOD has said in the Scriptures. In fact, God says - repeatedly - that there are NONE righteous, that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and that salvation cannot be earned or merited or deserved, else it would not be by GRACE. Your non-AAS view is disproved by a mountain of Biblical truth. So, rather than see salvation by grace through faith as AAS, why not look at it like God does - NOBODY gets it by their own merit. ONLY those who have accepted God's gift by faith get to go to heaven because it is not based on OUR righteousness but on Christ's righteousness - by which we are found IN - and those who are trying to work their way there by being good will NEVER see it. I'd rethink my "term" if I were you.
Yes, well you are believing that God will accept your whole self regardless if you become blessed to stop sinning and become truly obedient to God. So that is affirmative action salvation in my eyes, at least one type. a watered down salvation! ...just as black and other students were allowed into some colleges not by merit, thereby watering down the power of that education. Not the same, but similar.