No, they aren't. The fact that you can have SO many other factors besides GPA and Test Scores says otherwise.
Why should Children of Staff get a leg up? That's pure nepotism, as are legacies. Athletics would be fine, for sports schools, but Title IX is a lot of bullshit in general. No one gives a flip about women's sports, and they don't care about men's sports outside the Big Ten.
Do you really think any college is making money on their athletics programs outside of the Big Ten?
They charge $65K a year to go to an Ivy League school, they don't need to show favoritism to the alumni.
Sure it does. It achieves diversity and equity, both audible goals.
Nope, 400 years of oppressive polices are the problem.
I point out the obvious. Sure, the Holocaust was bad. The way the Jewish bankers and Socialists screwed Germany after WWI was still inexcusable. Sure, the Spanish Inquisition was bad, but the fact was, the Jews of Spain collaborated with the Caliphate for centuries. You screw people, they'll want to screw you back. it's human nature.
Nope, you like to embrace your bigotries to feel better about your own failed life.
Tell that to the Palestinian Children they are murdering right now. Wonderful people don't commit genocide.