"Children of alumni received an advantage. Minorities (except Asians) and athletes received an even bigger advantage..." You completely ignored the context of

"Children of alumni received an advantage. Minorities (except Asians) and athletes received an even bigger advantage..." You completely ignored the context of the statement. Instead, you created a strawman argument and ignored that other groups such as minorities and athletes are given advantages in the application process, yet a group that is inherently disadvantaged gets no preferential treatment. You also ignore the paragraph before that which begins: "...SAT scores are hardly a pure measure of merit." You took a lone statement out of context and then hammered it, when, in context, it deserved none of the scrutiny leveled upon it.