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[az226]

A typical class at Harvard has 2,500 student admits. Of those, 700 are black or Hispanic. If Harvard did away with legacy admissions, 25 additional Hispanic or black applicants would be admitted, so 725. However, if they did away with affirmative action, 450 would not be admitted, so you would be down to 275. Most of these 425 spots would go to Asian applicants and a chunk would go to white applicants.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

[blindriver → az226]

450 spots to less deserving students would go to 450 more deserving students?

That seems pretty fair to me. Unless you want to focus on the color of the skin of students and not the content of their character.

[az226 → blindriver]

Agreed. Racial discrimination preferences won’t be missed.