Affirmative Action Post

After reading all the articles about the 'race-neutral' college admissions policies, I have to agree with those rather than supporting affirmative action. The universities in Florida, California and Texas all show that their minority acceptance rate was the same or better after they got rid of the affirmative action policies. While looking at two potential candidates for a university who are the same in both academics and extracurriculars, that's when race can be seen as a plus, but having special programs for minority students is not very helpful for increasing the diversity of the school. Socioeconomic status could be seen as an even better way to classify the students, rather than by race. Students who grew up poor and live in impoverished areas should be given special consideration because of their situation. Race is not an indicator of struggles in life as much as socioeconomic status is, a rich Black or Hispanic student have probably not have had to overcome many obstacles in their lives than a White student whose family sits below the poverty line.