July 25, 2003

'Stealing' Minority Students

To the Editor:

I agree wholeheartedly with Kermit L. Hall ("The Biggest Barrier to College Isn't Race," The Review, June 20): Affirmative-action policies are essentially irrelevant at over 80 percent of the nation's colleges and universities, which admit essentially all qualified applicants. But other institutions' policies can do a good deal of harm. Each minority student admitted by an elite college or university who would not have been admitted but for an affirmative-action

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