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MSU’s struggle with retention, affirmative action ban

One way universities have tried to help the underprivileged is through what is commonly called affirmative action, which in higher education means allowing an applicant’s race or ethnicity to be taken into account during the admissions process to offset structural disadvantages that might come from attendance at lower-performing high schools.