Unfair is so relative. I recently came back from a college visit to a “highly rejective” university where the “scuttlebutt” is that they are so PC that you have to be Af-Am/disadvantaged/refugee/tragic upbringing in order to get in.
Obviously, I can’t tell who had a tragic upbringing. But the college green- filled with upscale looking white guys. The coffee bar- filled with upscale looking blond white guys. Every campus path- more of the same. If you photoshopped out the ever-present phones, you could have taken a picture and folks would have assumed it was from the 1950’s when indeed- only men were admitted-- and even then- a VERY tiny smattering of Asian/ethnic minorities/Jews etc. But it was all male, and VERY pale.
So sure, the admissions offices are sensitive to being a bastion of the Protestant elite (their historic roots) and now admit women (yay for Have Faith’s Daughter! ) and recognize that a mostly WASP freshman class won’t work in today’s society.
This is a good thing, not a bad one.
How does YOU working hard and having a job negatively impact your daughter? Do you think she’d have a better chance of getting into college if she’d been raised in the foster care system, or grew up in a homeless shelter???