>My point being that Brown can be both need blind and not have a lot of lower-income kids there. This is a very hard problem to solve for a university alone. I

>My point being that Brown can be both need blind and not have a lot of lower-income kids there. This is a very hard problem to solve for a university alone. In India, there is affirmative action AKA "reservation" and trust me that system has it's own perils. I still think meritocracy is the way to go while having systems developed by the govt. to help the under privileged kids meet that bar.