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My perspective is that two wrongs don't make a right. You don't fix one injustice by perpetrating another. If admissions are overly based on contributions/legacy/etc., the answer is to fix that problem. If education is too different for the poor than it is for the rich (it is), the answer is to mitigate that problem as much as possible. Due to the influence of parenting, you'll never get rid of it completely, but let's go as far as we can.
The answer is not to give more access to highly sought after and limited-availability training/education/whatever to those who are less qualified - by whatever best determination of qualification we can find. I.e., it doesn't have to be grades and test scores, but it shouldn't be 'these people haven't had a fair shake, so let's give more of it to them and less of it those who are more prepared/qualified'.
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