kinnem: per your link, and trying to cut through the eggshell tippy toe language, it looks like ASRs are for 1) Junior ROTC participants who would not qualify academically for scholarship outside the ASR program, and 2) diversity applicants in the same academic situation . The circular does not mention Diversity per se, but in one paragraph the reservation of scholarship for use at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and ASR are lumped together thematically.
This really points back to the Secretary of Defense's mandate in approx. Dec. of 2008 that the Service Academies and ROTC MUST produce officers that match the ethnic/ratial diversity of the Enlisted force. Neither the Academies, ROTC, or the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff for that matter, have any say in that matter.