Who deserves to get an elite education? That question is being debated in Massachusetts, where court papers argue over Harvard's use of race in its "holistic" admissions process, and in New York City, where politicians are trying to increase the number of black and Latino students in top public high schools.
But the answer has always been obvious: only the elite.
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