One of the many absurdities of Ivy League-level affirmative action is that the main beneficiaries are upper-middle class black and Latino kids (offspring of doctors, lawyers and college professors) who are able to skate into prestigious colleges with lower grades and test scores than are required of white kids from blue-collar families.
Much to the delight of their doctors, lawyers and college professor parents.
I had a family of mixed-race kids as students. Father was a black American doctor and mother was Malaysian. Wonderful kids, all very bright, attractive and a pleasure to teach. I asked the oldest when he was applying to college what race he would tick off on his college applications. For him, it was a no brainer, black of course. The less said about Asian the better as far as he was concerned.
His atitude bothered me a little. He was a bright kid who had had many advantages in his life, but he was still willing and able to play the race card if it would give him a leg up in the college admissions game. I didn’t blame him for playing the game, but he was good enough that he didn’t need to.
Yes. The Ivies cherry-pick those relatively few, high-acheiving black kids who do not come from the inner city. I knew a boy, child of Nigerian doctors, who did well at school and did well on SAT's - had offers to 5 Ivies. I knew several Chinese boys, same year, who had better grades and SATs, and didn't get accepted to even one Ivy.