Hard to say who deserves it in general, but I really do think that universities should deliberately seek out as wide a range of backgrounds as possible, given t

Hard to say who deserves it in general, but I really do think that universities should deliberately seek out as wide a range of backgrounds as possible, given that there is no shortage of motivated high-achieving applicants from across the range. How to grant them the freedom to do so, without allowing their decision-makers to descend into capricious bigotry, is a major institutional challenge for the 21st century.