Why admission to college should be decided by lottery, not points

This is ridiculous.

There is nothing wrong with admission on merit, on the contrary. Unfortunately this has always ruffled some feather on the (far) left and so we periodically read such 'ideas' under the pretence of equality.

Now, obviously the most well-offs will always have an advantage. The positive and constructive solution is not the ideological rejection of merit but to invest in education and to push all pupils so that the brightest and more hard-working can succeed whatever their background may be: We need more actual meritocracy, which means trying to level the playing field to have fair competition (as far as realistic and practical).