And yet we have the third highest mobility index! The last thing I want is become a Princeton - a school that admits the children of rich people and turns them more rich people.
As for our ranking in “chance a poor student has to become a rich adult” - we are only last compared to the Ivy+ schools! We are 6th in Illinois and in the top 7% of all schools. It isn’t that we are taking poor kids and not making them rich, it’s that we are graduating higher rates of teachers and grad students. They only seem “poor” compared to the alumni of the other schools that more commonly go on to be engineers, doctors, lawyers, and bankers.