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Higher education in california can offer a preview of what may happened. the state banned affirmative action back in 1996, which ultimately impacted black and latino student enrollment. kyung lah caught up with a california college student about his experience. >> reporter: harvard, yale, columbia, the rejection letters that ended his ivy league dream. >> i'm a straight a student. >> reporter: did you get into any ivy league schools? >> i did not. >> reporter: that was zoe when we met him two years ago. this is where we find him today, soon to be a junior at ucla. >> eliminating race and consi...

And their student bodies. this is how clarence thomas felt about affirmative action. >> he believed that people assumed he was there as a beneficiary of affirmative action. and it grated on him. >> he had this feeling of being around these white students who he says questioned his presence at yale. how is it that you, not just you, clarence thomas, but all you guys here, is it because of merit or is it because of affirmative action? he said he would keep stacks of rejection letters he had gotten from law firms. even when he was like a supreme court justice he had letters just disorder lined hi...

>> he had this feeling of being around these white students who he says questioned his presence at yale. how is it that you, not just you, clarence thomas, but all you guys here, is it because of merit or is it because of affirmative action? he said he would keep stacks of rejection letters he had gotten from law firms. even when he was like a supreme court justice he had letters just disorder lined him of this feeling of rejection by the elite law firms. >> clarence thomas blamed yale 's affirmative action policies are 1970s for his own trouble finding a job after graduation. he even strike a...

Presencequ at yale. how is it that you, not just clarence thomas but you say your here, is it because of merit or because of affirmative action? he said he would keep stacks of rejection letters he had gotten from law firms. even when he got lected supreme court justice he had these letters to remind himself of the kind of rerejection by the elite law firms. >>clarant thomas blamed yale's policies for his own trouble finding a job after graduation. he even stuck a 15 cent sticker from a cigar package on the back -- with clarjs thomas as eeoc chair and william bradford reynolds as head of the j...