...BYU should be an academically excellent institution. I have no problem with it being tough to get into, and trying to get the cream-of-the-crop students to attend.

But for many of the reasons you just pointed out in your post, it shouldn't and can't become a white/asian institution for the privileged few.

I happen to believe that *most* people are capable intellectually of performing well at virtually any major university.

Contrary to what some would have us believe there are only a selective set of "worthy" ones that "deserve" and can succeed at a academically rigorous institution. Hogwash. Utter nonsense.

This is an elitist, class-based, and in some cases even racist point of view; and it's antithetical to what BYU is all about.

BYU was never intended to be elitist or exclusionary to any race or economic segment of society. In fact I believe the mission of BYU is quite the opposite. To what ever extent BYU isn't effectively being inclusionary -- of course with standards and academic excellence in mind (being inclusive and academically excellent are not mutually exclusive or competing values) -- it is losing its way.