[fintstone]

If one was to try to design "affirmative action" to help the underserved, one would think it wiser to base it on income vice race, ethnicity, religion, sex, etc.. It would be much more effective and much less biased. Opportunity for young people in this country is likely a lot more impacted by wealth than any of the other attributes.

I always had a hard time explaining to high school classes that I spoke to that the poor Asians and whites in the class needed around 1450 on the SAT to even really start being considered for a scholarship while I could guarantee one to their black and Hispanic classmates (even if wealthy and privileged) with less than an 1100. It seemed to me that we were sending the wrong message to both groups. They had been brought up to believe in equal opportunity and this seemed a clear departure from that for the first time in their young lives.