University admission should be decided on academic performance with only the absolutely top students admitted. There should be no set asides for race, creed, color, sex, or anything else. If you do not have the brainpower to do the work, you don’t belong in a university.
The affirmative action supporters do have one point, though for obvious reasons they don’t dwell on the topic. There’s always been affirmative action for the offspring of the wealthy and powerful.
It does a young person no favor to admit him to a school where most of the other students are smarter. The wash-out rate for the less able AA admits is very high.
Was it Berkeley that stopped admitting the less able and they found there was no drop in the number of AAs graduating.