This is par for the course for Harvard. There is a book, I forget the name and too lazy to google, partly about the founding of Cal (Berkeley was the only U of California back then, so this was a loooong looong time ago) and the Harvard admits from SF Bay Area got a reception at an Alum’s house that has a view on top of a hill… The book was good, it posits Cal as the future of US Public Education because it took smart kids from schools that are not feeders (the author went to Groton) and gives them the same quality of education. It talks about social mobility through education as a public good