Racist Comments Cost Conservative Parkland Student a Place at Harvard

Huh? The university system (for rich people) has nearly always been that way.

Don't you remember that blacks and women - incorrect group affiliations! - used to have a really hard time going to university?

Or the schools that generally didn't accept Jews? As I recall, the 'well-rounded student' euphemism was because Jewish people tended to do better on entrance tests, so there needed to be some justification for discounting that.

Or, recall how the universities (for rich people) used to have entrance examinations which were biased towards the material taught at prep schools? Funny how poorer people didn't learn so much Latin at their schools.

There's certainly places where 'individuals can study, and question, and learn' - try smaller universities where people aren't fighting for the name cachet.

And ... stop the bad habit of thinking "person X went to Name Cachet university therefore is more likely to be a good job candidate than person Y who went to Less Well Known university."

Harvard denies admission to boy once they discover he’s a racist troll. That seems quite reasonable to me.