Then the headline should be: "Legacies are banned from top tier private schools".

Around 25% of admissions in Ivy League schools are legacies. Unsurprisingly, this does not seem to outrage certain parts of society that much.

That's bad too.

Meritocracy may not be what you think it is, or achieve the results you assume. See recent books by Markovits and Sandel:

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/...

* https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/21/20897021/meritocra...

* https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is...

* https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/the-myth-of-m...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Criticism

The word's modern popularity originated in a pejorative meaning which was then lost:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

Once people 'are in', they get more resources, and that allows for (e.g.) their children to have more opportunities, and so they then in turn win. If you have a person who does not 'get in' and 'win', then they have fewer resources / opportunities to show or develop what skills they may have: a doom-loop can become possible.

As an example of what resources can get you:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/rick-singer-mastermin...

Okay, but race based admissions for college is bad and I'm glad its revoked.