See #46
Just because an inner city black got into Yale or Harvard on AA doesn’t mean he didn’t have exceptional grades.
It meant he needed Harvard/Yale to ignore that his daddy wasn’t rich or an alumni. H/Y are probably the most nepotistic universities in the nation in terms of entry.
They came under pressure to admit SOME minority students, but they got to choose from the absolute best. That's what passed for affirmative action back then. They probably had thousands of black applicants and admitted a handful.
Yes, that is also true. Carson did very well in school and his SAT score was the highest in Detroit in some 20 years. I am not knocking him merely stating what he himself stated about his AA appointment to Yale. Obviously he had the grades for med school and we know Johns Hopkins gets it pick for fellowships also. The GI surgeon who saved my wife’s life is a Johns Hopkins grad. You are familiar with LOA’s to the academy and that the VP plus each Senator and Congressman can have 5 .