This is a version of the equality of opportunity doctrine.This doctrine appears to represent justice only on the basis of a thoroughly confused view of the nature of opportunities and the causes of human success.
In any given instance,an opportunity is the result of a combination of external circumstances and the skills and abilities an individual possess,such that he is able to exploit the circumstances to his advantage. An opportunity is a product in the sense that the skill and abilities an individual possesses are the result of his successful exploitation of previous lesser opportunities.
Opportunities are never a matter merely of external circumstances that are served up on a plate, as it were by some "distributor", such as a professor or teacher. They always depend on what the individual himself brings to the external circumstance in the of skills and abilities.These skills and abilities are in turn the cumulative product of what the individual has done with his life to that point.
You state significant truth. But in relation to the idiocy prevalent at the subject University, it is a case of “casting pearls before swine.”