[Spok]

The SAT/ACT tests predict success in college. Other than that, they’re not good for much. /s
Oh and BTW, has anyone other than Charles Murray looked at the dropout rates for affirmative action admissions?

[Chickensoup]

Thomas Sowell has written extensively about it.

[9YearLurker]

Thomas Sowell has done research on that for decades.

[rdcbn1]

Bad affirmative action admits used to drop out when they found that they could not work to the level of their peers. Not anymore. Their lack of success due to basic lack of talent, poor preparation and lack of study skills and work ethic is now blamed on systemic racism, racial discrimination and constant acts of malicious micro aggression by faculty and staff exercising their white and yellow privilege . They mau mau the faculty into giving them A+ grades to avoid legal action so they keep their full ride scholarships and stick around as a protected class . The Ivy League schools and places like Stanford and Berkley have soft Liberal arts curriculum and ethnic/identity study departments where they can park these entitled, non performing freeloaders but as a hard core tech school MIT does not have the academic course diversity to support diversity studies and students.

[Myrddin]

The UC system had a 5% affirmative action set aside in the 70s when I attended UCSD. That meant 5% of academically qualified students were excluded to make room for the AA admissions. The long term graduation rate for the AA admissions was 2%. A spectacular failure. Prop 209 sought to outlaw AA admissions policies. The voters approved. An attempt to repeal Prop 209 with Prop 16 in 2020 was rejected by the voters. The UC administration has persisted in trying to subvert the clear intent of Prop 209.