You may recall that Prop 209 was started as a backlash by s couple conservative Bay-area profs because the Dem-controlled CA Assembly had passed a bill (vetoed by Wilson) requiring AA quotas to extend to grading and graduation.
As if that was ever going to fly in the classroom. I've seen the stats on exams in my senior sequence biochem classes at UCSD. The raw score spread across 400 students was 87 to 93 points. A couple people scored 98. Ten "non-contigous minor" students scored in the high 60's. If you know what you are doing, you're in the tight pack from 87 to 93. No affirmative action can make up for being 30 points down. You can bet the students angling for med school aren't going to purposely screw up a test to make non-performers look better either.