Lemme 'splain. In European Communist countries the governments instituted admission policies at the universities (which were all state run) to correct past injustices and admit previously disadvantaged classes. The advantaged classes whose children were denied those extra points and often the admission were the sons and daughters of the despised "intelligentsia" and former aristocracy. These were in a manner perfect self-perpetuating policies - only a voiceless minority was against them, and those admitted and graduated from universities, that is the countries' new elites, would never admit to others or to themselves that they benefitted from discrimination. But in the end, many lives were broken. Somebody please explain to me the difference between then there and here now!
Private and religious colleges do not have to accept federal money and all the strings attached to it.
That option was not available during the communist era to anyone.
There are still a few private and religious schools that have not sold their sold to the federal government for filthy lucre