I have a couple of questions. How is it determined who deserves a spot? Do legacies deserve their spots? If it is just a matter of LSAT and GPA, everyone with the highest LSAT and GPA would always get into every school and even white people with slightly lower LSATs and GPAs would not deserve to get in. It is interesting that I never see the anti-AA people making the argument that those white students dont deserve to be there.
Well, LP, you're of course rubbing against one of the deeper underlying problems here; that many of those that oppose AA don't like that what they have is not what adcoms want and are essentially arguing that their perceived strengths should be all that is considered in this process. I call it the Googler theory of AA.
It's hilarious when you realize that in many cases as these people are often just frat-types who coasted their way through just-slight-more-that-minimum coarseloads while boasting how easy it was to study at the last minute to get a B+ without doing any work. Or they "had a bad freshman year" which is used as an excuse to explain poor performance without taking repsonsibility for it. Instead of blaming themselves for not doing better, they're scapegoating. They want to decide who "deserves" a spot and it's them and them alone. I think this describes about 2/3 of the opposition to AA that we've seen in this thread and on this board in general.