From a reader:

The national scandal is — colleges around the country don’t model themselves after the mediocre.
The affirmative action race-based student admitted to Harvard would have gotten into the University of Georgia on his own merit. Georgia, modeling on the elites, is then going to go after a student, affirmative action-wise, who could have gotten into Kennesaw State, which in turn will get pummeled for either (A) not having enough minority students, or (B) having too many minority students flunk out.