Yes. But of course those who recoil from the idea of permitting race as an admissions factor generally have no issue with permitting the use of class, though it is a rare 17-year-old who has had a hand in the class to which he or she belongs. I would imagine that a 17-year-old entering college is typically about as likely to have earned their class as they were in earning their race. So then no rich kid should be penalized in admissions merely because his parents were rich, and no poor kid should gain an advantage merely because his parents were poor. People are willing to use class in admissions because they think that class influences social mobility. I wonder why they think that race doesn’t.