John — in situations like these, it’s always hard to tell why minority admissions rates didn’t go down much. Maybe affirmative action wasn’t having that great an impact to begin with, or maybe the schools just didn’t bother following the new mandate. I think it’s premature for Ward Connerly to claim victory on this front.

Heather Mac Donald demonstrated how the California university system simply ignored Connerly’s ballot initiative there. And Michigan admits using Descriptor PLUS to target underrepresented neighborhoods, which clearly just proxy for underrepresented races.