Equal Opportunity

My mother and father have recently been looking in to an SAT/ACT tutor for me to work with a bit.  I decided I would take the liberty in looking into some of the tutoring companies.  I was shocked by what I found in my research.  I read this article in the NY Sun about what the top SAT tutors in New York make per hour.  The article said that people pay as much as 400 dollars an hour to have their children work with Ivy League degree holding tutors.  While I couldn't find any article confirming this, my father told me he had heard that the top New York LSAT tutors charge up to 750 dollars an hour to tutor folks.  This salary is more than many lawyers make.  To me, this is absolutely obscene.  People are so desperate to give their child the competitive edge they need to get it to the best schools, that they will pay several hundred dollars an hour to have someone give their child all the secrets to standardized testing.  And why is all this necessary, because colleges use a number to gage the intelligence and potential of their applicants.  With the unfair advantage given to the fortunate and wealthy, these numbers become overwhelmingly distorted, it is hard to imagine how inaccurate these portrayals are.

Americans strive to create the image of equal opportunity, but the reality is that this is impossible.  For the past 25 minutes I have been staring blankly at my computer screen, unsure what to write, but I now understand that the reason for this is because I have been trying to search for a solution that simply can't be found.  If colleges lower the acceptance rates for people of lower socioeconomic status, those of higher status will argue that they are being cheated.  However, at the current state, those of lower socioeconomic status are at a clear disadvantage.  

Thus how can we say that we are a nation of equal opportunity?  Equal opportunity is fundamentally impossible, there will always be rich and poor, there will always be those at an advantage and those at a disadvantage.