I think that the prestigious college model of only letting in people who they know have a 90+% chance of making it is damaging to socioeconomic mobility; there

I think that the prestigious college model of only letting in people who they know have a 90+% chance of making it is damaging to socioeconomic mobility; there's a lot of us who have, maybe, closer to a 50% chance, who know this and would be happy to buy the lottery ticket in question, but it's not available for sale. I understand the need to prevent people from spending money they can't afford on a degree they can't get, but personally think a weeder class would be a much more fair way to go about doing that filtering.. make me pass a few really hard classes before signing up for the degree program.