College Quote by Heather Mac Donald

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability,…

— Barbara Bergmann

Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions....

— Auren Hoffman

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

— Michael J. Knowles

At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs.

— Robert E. Lerner

Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense…

— Richard Rodriguez

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do…

— Antonin Scalia

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and…

— Adam Schiff

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally…

— Stephen Colbert

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion…

— Eric Liu

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research…

— Clint Smith

We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black people be…

— David Lammy

“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop to think…

— Michael Eric Dyson