I have always believed that “holistic admission” is used to facilitate the transmission of privilege from one generation to another. This recent study only helps to strengthen my position more:
For me, a simple work-around is to focus on the major and not the institution. Both Euan Blair and Lee Hsuen Loong are sons of Prime Ministers. Blair has a masters degree from Yale while Lee was a senior wrangler at Cambridge. That is all I need to know who has it and who doesn’t, relatively speaking of course.
Your comment about First World, Second World, and Third World are exactly as I remember. They used to call the Third World “underdeveloped nations”, but was later changed to “developing nations”. Political correctness goes back a long way…l.