Yes, there is a massive difference.

First, the fact that you think that a below-average student could get into a prestigious college simply on the fact he's black, first of all, is crazy. They really don't care for you if you don't show potential.

Now, I believe what you're attempting to talk about is how college admissions may choose to slightly prioritize minority students who meet their benchmark over white students. This is to promote diversity in attempts to maintain quotas for minority representation in post-secondary education. These underrepresented minority students are not "below-average" and don't just magically waltz in front of the qualified white students. They're all qualified and in attempts to balance out the socioeconomic obstacles that many within these minority groups have to overcome in order to succeed and get a good education. This all being said, however, white students still maintain the huge majority of admissions regardless.

When you give me a 91 in a class that I got an 82 in, that shows me that I don't have to work for the success that everyone else has to. That's when there's a shift of standards and implies that minorities can't work hard for their A, so we'll just get them regardless.

Admissions possibly being slightly in a minority's favor when they're rightfully qualified is not the same thing as systemically giving an underrepresented minority a higher grade because of his race. It's a slap to the face.

Do not try it with me on my education.