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Sotomayor: I'm an "affirmative action baby."

Jillian Bandes
Jillian Bandes  |  June 11, 2009 3:01 PM
In videotaped remarks from 25 years ago, Sotomayor says that her acceptance to Princeton University and Yale Law School was contingent on affirmative action policies.
If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions, it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted.
Her test scores have not been released.