[ankushnarula]

What’s the limiting principle or boundary condition of “equal opportunity”? Is every social institution required to compensate for all external inequalities? If so, how can each institution subjectively compensate for social inequalities without diminishing their respective core functions?

The point here is that institutions must provide equal opportunity within their own functional scope. But simultaneously, institutions must also maintain enough filtering criteria to ensure they do not abandon their core function.

MIT best serves general social questions of equal opportunity by accepting individuals based on some standard quantifiable baseline filtering criteria, and tackling such vast social questions through open and honest inquiry & research.

As a side note, perhaps institutions that are closer to problems like social inequality are best suited to serve them.