This is an excellent question, and it's at the heart of the point I'm trying to make.

The problem, right now, is that too many of those arbiters have decided that race and biological sex automatically supersede all other human attributes in a majority of cases. So by expanding the criteria by which affirmative action can be measured, we'd at least be creating a greater pool of diversity than just assorted skin tones or genitalia.

Penguin, you've still honed in on the core problem with any college admissions process...who gets to be that arbiter? I'd argue that, currently, in many cases, there are bad arbiters. So how do we compel them to broaden their narrow lens through which they view diversity to shift from "either/of" to "and/also"....????