This is an investigation that reflects on how a good like higher education should be distributed. When selecting access to a particular type of education, a criterion is applied that excludes some from its benefits. This raises a moral issue that concerns the legitimacy of such a criterion. There is nothing in this problem that can be considered natural or obvious. University selection is a specific design, historically conditioned, a technology constructed by society under certain concepts and biases, which generally seeks to somehow isolate and measure individual merit and use it as an access criterion.
