What a crock! The study being discussed relates to the 200 most selective colleges as a group. Not “the Ivies” or any other more “elite” set. It’s a fairly simple, clumsy paper that essentially says if you compare the entering freshman student bodies at the 200 most selective colleges with a hypothetical entering class consisting of the same number of people ranked solely by SAT or ACT scores, just over half of the actual students at those 200 colleges wouldn’t make the cut. They would be replaced by substitutes who were a lot whiter and slightly more wealthy than the excluded group. White admissions would come at the expense of Black, Hispanic, and, yes, Asian students. (How irrelevant to CC is the study? The percentage of ethnically Asian students at the 200-college group is currently 11%, and if test scores were used as the only admissions criterion that percentage would drop to 10%.)
It’s no surprise that when I clicked on the OP’s link, the “article” was accompanied by an ad for the John Birch Society. The study itself had absolutely nothing to say about “Ivies,” except to the extent that the Ivies almost certainly represented 4% of the colleges in the study (but probably a little less than 4% of the students). The study really had nothing to say regarding what the article’s author and Tucker Carlson were ranting about – children of Democratic politicians getting admitted to Harvard. (News flash: Children of Republican politicians go to Harvard, too.)