 Sotomayor entered Princeton University on a full scholarship , by her own later description gaining admission in part due to her achievements in high school and in part because affirmative action made up for her standardized test scores not being fully comparable to those of other applicants . She would later say that there are cultural biases built into such testing and praise affirmative action for fulfilling " its purpose : to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run . " 
