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.
Exactly! Now MIT has excellent liberal arts departments, so that MIT students can be well rounded. But at MIT the science departments dominate and call the shots. The science profs and assistant profs refuse to baby sit hundreds of affirmative action students.
Thus MIT went back to tests for incoming students. Same as goes on in all universities in Europe.