College also seems a bit 'late' to be stepping in and trying to level the playing field. By that point at least 15 years of lost opportunity for advancement can have occurred.

Poor academic and other performance is just one small symptom of larger systemic issues.

In order for the US to move in a positive direction broken social divisions must be smoothed, opportunity for all must be increased, and the military industrialization of community servants must be reversed to return those groups to helping instead of harming citizens.