Elite Universities and the Underprivileged

On a college visit to Earlham College, a Quaker College in Indiana:  The Earlham president gave a presentation on how Earlham’s idea differs from the old European model of preparing students for the life of the elite.  The telos of Earlham is to prepare students for democracy.  In this brief essay https://aeon.co/essays/how-elite-education-promotes-diversity-without-difference from Aeon, the author says that elite universities do admit some (very few) low-income students but that they are the “privileged poor” who had some special advantages in their upbringing.  And then the elite universities train them to be more like their elite classmates.  (She doesn’t mention Charles Murray’s point that these places also are engaged in genetic elitism, breeding the one-percenters with one-percenters in the making.)  She argues that colleges that admit more  truly underprivileged students are better for democracy and provide better service to diverse communities.We need more Earlham colleges and Berea colleges.  In order to Make America Great Again!  Just sayin.