Today, the times reported on a new study, by Raj Chetty and David Deming of Harvard and John Friedman of Brown, that demonstrates that the country’s most qualified high school students are indeed disproportionately affluent.
7% of top students come from the top 1% of income – however, colleges amplify that effect. There, those 1% are overrepresented by more than factor two: 16%.
It also goes into the cost of becoming a competitive athlete - which to a large degree is also reserved for affluent parents, not a way for underprivileged kids to “work” their way into elite schools.
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