Obama's pick to replace Justice Souter said she didn't have the scores to be admitted to Princeton and called herself an affirmative action baby. She used almost the same language as Michelle Obama nee Robinson did referring to her own affirmative action admission to Princeton (sorry, link no longer available -- that's been happening a lot lately).
From an article in the SF Gate:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor once described herself as "a product of affirmative action" who was admitted to two Ivy League schools despite scoring lower on standardized tests than many classmates, which she attributed to "cultural biases" that are "built into testing."
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"If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions, it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted," she said on a panel of three female judges from New York who were discussing women in the judiciary. The video is dated "early 1990s" in Senate records.
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