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The really sad thing about this type of decision...your daughters will always secretly wonder if they really got into that school because of their abilities...or was it their perceived race. For their peers, they'll have to prove themselves over and over again so as not to be considered 'the token' that couldn't do it w/o the aged white crones on a guilt trip who established the system. As a woman in science I can tell you...it will take a while for their self esteem to sort things out. I wondered for years if I got my degrees because I was 'socially promoted' if you will. I had to prove myself over and above the call of duty when I got into the workplace because my peers assumed that since I was a woman...i'd automatically been 'socially promoted'. I didn't trust my abilities and they didn't trust my degrees. Not a good thing. At all.

Course, your kids have you as a father...:) You know the score on these ballfields. They already have an edge on the competition!

Not only with their be the doubt in the minds of Mike's daughters(though it depends on what scores and grades they do get, of course) but the leftist elites in college do not always control students down to the lowest levels.

Whites and Asians(once again, why are they 'over'represented even compared to white students??) will show a greater propensity to shun black and latino students from study groups, which are often crucial methods of study and collaborative learning and exploration of the material in graduate schools. They will feel like social outcasts, even if they are the most talented in the school.

Even the most well-meaning whites will assume(as they do now in undergrad) that a black man had a leg up due to preferences and will treat them like a "special" kid. I can't think of a worse outcome for race relations than self-doubt in the minds of those being selected for preference, and skepticism by 'over'represented students.