Time To End Legacy Admissions

It is true that tuition fees these days are obscenely high. But they are not the biggest barrier to an elite education for academically gifted kids from working-class families. The bigger obstacle is that they can't get in. Comprehensive data on the admission practices of top universities are exceedingly hard to come by given that most of the schools are private. Nevertheless, the research that exists shows that, thanks to special preferences for children of alumni, elite universities systematically favor rich, white kids over more talented, working-class kids, especially from first-generation immigrant families. Read more at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/18/EDO3VLH14.DTL