Trump administration backs Asian-American students in Harvard admissions lawsuit

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Affirmative action should be done in a fair way.

For example, if you are handling university admissions, then you should give places to the students with the highest scores first, regardless of their race / ethnicity. In fact, you shouldn't even be looking at their race / ethnicity in admissions.

After you've given students placements based on their ability, and you have places left over, take a set of the next best students. Look at the overall race/ethnicity distribution of *all* the applying students, compare them to the race/ethnicity distribution of the students you've just given placements to, and give placements to the next best students in a way which results in a race/ethnicity distribution that most closely matches that of all applying students.

Assuming you mean test scores, sometimes highest score is not the only deciding factor. They'll often give a higher admission ranking to a lower test score but more involved student over a total book worm.