Their purpose wouldn't be a monopoly but maintaining their disproportionate influence niche from family status. It is to get the legacies in. Regardless of the

Their purpose wouldn't be a monopoly but maintaining their disproportionate influence niche from family status. It is to get the legacies in. Regardless of the rightness of my assessment it wouldn't be a conspiracy as it isn't illegal. It is legal to influence the instituions themselves with money as they have ownership of all resources involved. The admissions scandal demonstrated the difference quite well. Of course the admission has other unspoken reasons for wanting them - contacts for tbeir network and their own pride and flatrery about "cultural worth". Stupid human social trick stuff of skewed priorties.