Getting a racially diverse student body for the racial majority to actually encounter real people who don't look like them is a nice bonus, but I'm pretty sure racial factors in admission and scholarships are meant to bridge the gap for students who *might* have scored as well as their white counterparts if they had had the same opportunities. Students with similar potential to learn.

I realize that generationally poor white people also exist and that this isn't a perfect system, but it's not about diversity, really. It's an attempt at being egalitarian.