A donation to Harvard only accelerates opportunity inequality. Harvard benefits only rich kids.
55% receive needs based scholarships, with families making less than 150k per year paying less than 15k per year.
Sure there are a lot of rich kids and legacies. But to say it only benefits the wealthy is just wrong.
1 - https://college.harvard.edu/guides/financial-aid-fact-sheet
For poor students, Harvard and its peers are pretty much the only free college options besides merit scholarships.
That distribution really is extremely heavily skewed, so I think the original comment is correct, I can't see how it's improving equality.
If 1.8% were poor and Harvard helped them become rich adults, probably 65% were rich and Harvard helped them stay rich as adults.