Doesn’t mean anything if Harvard was under the “affirmative action” gun to place X number of minorities at the top of the graduating class; much like they have X number of minorities who must be admitted to the College each and every year.
Obama had a lower grade point average than the other affirmative actiona candidates. The members of his class and class leaders have reported none of them ever saw or met Obama at Columbia University, even though they report they knew everyone else in their class. Obama is absent in the group photographs of that class. A representative of the Saudis in New York City has acknowledged in published reports providing Obama with the necessary influence needed to obtain a place for Obama at Harvard.
If such were the case, then academic records would tell you nothing as grades would have to be falsified in order to qualify the student's membership in the top 10%.