<p>This is an interesting topic, so just to play a bit of devil’s advocate…</p>
<p>If he applied as a freshman applicant (as he indicated in the OP), then he would be competing against other high school applicants on the basis of his high school record and absolutely nothing done afterward. Hence he’ll have no advantage that he wouldn’t have had when applying fresh out of high school, so he couldn’t possibly have an unjust advantage in particular.</p>