Affirmative Action in College Admission: Ineffective and Unfair

Last year, Michiganders voted to amend their constitution and ban affirmative action in college admissions. Affirmative action is a set of policies to help minorities and women receive education or employment*. Used in some government jobs, these policies encourage hiring and promoting people in jobs like law enforcement to better represent the people of the area. However, much focus lately has been on College admissions.
Most people in Michigan now look at Affirmative Action in colleges as a way to help lower class inner-city minorities, such as African Americans in Detroit get out of a vicious cycle of poverty. Yet a financially wealthy minority could be receiving this help. It is plausible that these students could give back to the community, but this method is indirect and not effective.
In addition, a study done by Richard Sander, a UCLA law professor states 43% black students attending law schools do not graduate**. While unclear whether these students were aided by affirmative action that number still looms overhead. Trying to balance out equality, these Colleges may be just handing these students debt. Also, how fair is it that a poor Caucasian is declined from a college because a rich minority usurps his place but fails out?
Instead of using affirmative action in University admission to have a class who represents the ethnic background of the area, colleges could give scholarships to minorities who need financial aid or the government could work on inner city projects, where an uneducated, unemployed, and lower-class minority tends to exist. Affirmative action in college admissions is ineffective and unfair to both the majority and minority. As mentioned before, there many other more equitable systems.
In order to fully document such systems, I will publish a second article about the inner city, affirmative action, and poverty.
* wikipedia.org - keyword "affirmative action"
** http://www.law.ucla.edu/sander/Systemic/final/SanderFINAL.pdf