It’s inherently unfair from the beginning. If you’re poor you go to a public school. Even if you are get a perfect GPA, it probably isn’t good enough to get in

It’s inherently unfair from the beginning. If you’re poor you go to a public school. Even if you are get a perfect GPA, it probably isn’t good enough to get into good universities. Anecdotally. my high school had several students that were AP scholars, national merit scholars, great SATs, etc... and all of them went to Ohio State after getting rejected from better schools. I don’t think anyone that went to my high school had been accepted to a prestigious university in several years. Your teachers are also trying to teach 30 other kids so that will hurt compared to better public schools/private schools. Hell, you might even have to skip doing extra curricular activity’s entirely in favor of work, which will hurt your chances of going to a good college. Additionally, your parents don’t have “legacy” status at good universities which will probably hurt you. If you’re poor your family probably doesn’t have connections that will hurt you after your formal education has ended. If your family is poor then taking business risks are also less likely to happen and more financially risky. The list can go on and on. I don’t know how to fix that and it wont be solved solely by wealth redistribution.