Why is race the end all be all grouping? Maybe we should group by favorite dinosaur.

I’m (mostly) white. The first 5 years of my life I grew up in a trailer house. My wife is also (mostly) white, and both sides of her family lost everything during the Great Depression. Is there any good reason a rich black kid should have been out ahead of us in admissions, just because of his skin color?

You don't.

That shouldn't ever be a goal.

Unfortunately a lot of people don't realise that the real world isn't, and can't be, that way.

By figuring out why they're under represented and fixing those?

Is it income disparity? Single parent households? Lack of funding for schools in poor communities? Why can't we focus on addressing those and leveling the playing field rather than picking one way to group people (by race in this case) and artificially tipping the scale? Why not by gender, or family income, or height or beauty? Those all have impacts to life outcome too.

You stop blaming their issues on the white boogeyman and instead knuckle down to fix the hard problems that don’t have sexy solutions (e.g. single parent households, poor nutrition, high-crime proximity, lack of access to studying material, etc).

Have you tried telling them to step up their game?

Attack the root of the problem by building better schooling in disadvantaged areas so they increase their chance to be accepted?

Why do groups matter at all? Shouldn't the individual be what we measure? How much is this individual disadvantaged, regardless of their group or set of groups? Adjust for that, rather than arbitrary groupings.

You could try ending legacy admissions or admitting fewer white people.