many criticize the reliance on these kinds of objective indices, but few have been able to propose a workable alternative to them. that means universities should live up to their ideals rather than admitting athletes and legacies who are unqualified, they should focus on finding bright children from poor backgrounds who have great potential but don't score as well on these testing measures. many elite colleges today take in more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than from the bottom 60%. it cannot be that those millions of students have no talent. it's just that we don't have a good enough mechanism to find them. elite colleges should be taking in many more students anyway. even as their endowments have grown stratospherically, their class sizes have expanded very slowly. this emphasis on access should also animate politicians. the biggest problem with