While fairness is important, the point is promoting someone with lesser ability (IQ or academic) into an environment they are not equipped to excel in ultimately leads to their undoing.
It is the law of unintended consequence.[/quote]
But you and I disagree about their being unable to excel. Admittedly, they would have a higher failure/attrition rate, but many of them would succeed, and those are the students who the Affirmative Action folks are trying to protect and encourage.
