I went to a high school that was 90% black. We had a few kids every year that got into Ivies. They were always top 5 in the class if not Val or Sal and had SATs north of 1500 (back when only rich kids had access to SAT prep and you had to walk uphill both ways through snow to get to school), but they probably got in over some white kids who looked better on paper. They didn’t take any spots from the kids of the rubes that routinely bitch about this shit. And the kids who did lose a spot still got in somewhere great. Wherever you go what you do with the opportunity once you get in is what counts
And I would bet the number of legacy kids at Ivy League schools and places like Stanford Vandy and NW who are actually not qualified to be there dwarfs the “DEI” numbers
Final aside the minority kids at my HS who went to prestigious schools, with the exception of a couple of true prodigies, had parents who were professionals. They got a lot of money for school that imo should have gone to lower middle class kids regardless of race. Our system has helped turn what should be class conflict into race conflict