Certainly you're right to stress the unfairness that bedevils current practices (both those of applicants and of decision-makers.) It's indefensible and appalling. But universities are ultimately businesses; they choose their classes to maximize expected future alumni donations.
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Of course universities don't want to acknowledge this explicitly; for to do so would endanger the tax advantages they enjoy as non-profit organizations. These depend, ultimately, on maintaining favorable public opinion, which corrupt and/or biased admissions practices undermine.
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