Although a major scandal erupted in 2019 over bribery and other fraudulent practices used by wealthy Americans to secure their children's admission to elite colleges, the affluent benefit substantially from other kinds of class-biased admission policies that are perfectly legal.  Indeed, large donations, hereditary entitlements, and favoritism for athletes have long privileged the privileged -- and continue to privilege the privileged -- in entering the loftiest ranks of U.S. higher education.