Eliminating Race Does Not Benefit Whites

In The Shape of the River, written by former university presidents William Bowen of Princeton University and Derek Bok of Harvard University, the authors pointed out that eliminating considerations of race would have increased the likelihood of admission for white applicants at selective undergraduate institutions from 25% to only 26.5%.  That is because there are so many more white students than there are disadvantaged minorities, that eliminating race as a factor in admissions will have minimal benefits for whites.