Again, this is a tangential point about how upper socioeconomic classes can better prepare their children for college admissions. The obvious solution is to inv

Again, this is a tangential point about how upper socioeconomic classes can better prepare their children for college admissions. The obvious solution is to invest in the public education system, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon (in America anyway, due to it being within the purview of individual states). The point I'm making is that inequality in colleges is due to better preparation by higher-earning families and not some conspiratorial old-boys club. The hypothetical "some poor person, who went to a shitty college, that's even smarter" the original commenter referred to would have had as fair a shot as any of their caliber to get into the top schools. It's the poor precocious 5 year old that doesn't get read to every night and falls behind because both parents are working late at minimum wage jobs that defines the difficulty of escaping poverty through education. Top schools get to the table wayyy too late to heap the blame on them.