What a weird graph that Brown Daily Herald shows! It seems to show just 2 points in time, separated by 10 years, but connected by a straight line as if the trends upward or downward were smooth over the intervening years, when in reality we have no idea what happened in the intervening years. For all we know, 2021 might have been an outlier year, or perhaps 2011 was. Crummy data representation. Surprised this passed muster at the newspaper. ETA: I agree with your larger point that the Ivy + schools in general don’t do much for poor students (because they admit few.)
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