How about this: colleges are seen as places of socioeconomic mobility rather than means of protecting existing stature? Eliminate legacy admissions and make ev

How about this: colleges are seen as places of socioeconomic mobility rather than means of protecting existing stature? Eliminate legacy admissions and make everything race blind but incorporate a generational wealth score. The result for certain groups will likely be the same but the explanation becomes clearer. We can't talk about this issue without looking at the disparity between Asian Americans and African Americans with the former making almost 2x as much as the latter [0] on median in 2010. If we focus on generational wealth groups of students with large real estate, business, and financial holdings would be penalized and a rich African American or poor Asian Americans wont slip through the cracks due to their race. We're past the point where admission can be based solely on merit because if they let in everyone with enough merit the school couldn't handle it. So we have to start looking into the circumstances under which that merit was accomplished, e.g. were they affluent and with greater resources than their impoverished counterparts? [0] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian-americans/ https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian...