<p>To follow up on the “to what purpose”: By November of your freshman year, nobody’s asking where you went to high school. It just doesn’t really matter any more; they’ll still ask what state you’re from, but arbitrarily “spreading the wealth” by that one metric would be to spread the wealth (and possibly dilute the awesomeness of the entering class) by a metric that stops mattering less than a year from now.</p>