Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League (ed. Broadway Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307763082