<p>Sure. You will find a direct relationship at the “top” professional schools (NOT the graduate schools, but the professional schools) between 1) family income and attendance; and 2) legacy status in admission (both of them linked to each other.) If you wanted to compare what those admissions mean as a surrogate for quality, you would have to look at, for example, the number/percentage of Pell grantees at each school that ended up at the prestige professional schools, or, alternatively, examined the family income/legacy status of those attending. That well-to-do students at the nation’s most prestigious colleges end up at the most well-to-do prestigious graduate schools is pretty much a statement of the obvious.</p>
<p>In other words, if you want to attend Yale Law School, statistically by far the best thing you can do is choose your parents well. ;)</p>