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Better how? Any metric you use to measure candidates can arguably already be biased towards people who didn't grow up poor.
Better grades? Students who attended well funded schools get better grades. That's indirectly measuring wealth
More extracurricular activities? Students from wealthy families have more opportunity to take part in extracurricular activities. That's indirectly measuring wealth.
Ability to pay? That's just straight up measuring wealth.
While not the greatest solution, affirmative action was meant to give people born into bad situations a way to climb out. Education is directly linked to wealth and requiring wealth to get an education keeps poor people poor.