Imagine two high school seniors with comparable grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities. One is black, has wealthy parents, attends a prep school, and resides in Manhattan’s affluent Upper West Side. The other goes to an underserved public school in Appalachia, is the son of an impoverished single mother, and happens to be white.

As it stands, elite universities would give the rich black kid a leg up over the poor white kid. That’s not right.