&gt; Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard&#x27;s undergraduate class pays no fees. From this we reasonably say that Harvard is mostly a school for rich kids, despite its generosity to those non-rich kids it lets in.<p>This argument is backwards. Harvard has a need-blind admission policy, which means that admissions decisions are judged solely on merits.<p>The reason that kids from the &gt; 60% of households with incomes below that threshold don&#x27;t go to Harvard isn&#x27;t because of Harvard&#x27;s admission policies, it&#x27;s because the college preparatory system heavily favors families with higher wealth.