Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com)

Students at elite colleges are even richer than experts realized, according to a new study based on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records. At 38 colleges in America, including five in the Ivy League -- Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown -- more students came from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent. From a report on the NYTimes (alternate non-paywall link): Roughly one in four of the richest students attend an elite college -- universities that typically cluster toward the top of annual rankings (you can find more on our definition of "elite" at the bottom). In contrast, less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the bottom fifth of American families attend an elite college; less than half attend any college at all. Colleges often promote their role in helping poorer students rise in life, and their commitments to affordability. But some elite colleges have focused more on being affordable to low-income families than on expanding access. "Free tuition only helps if you can get in," said Danny Yagan, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the authors of the study.

Comments

So?

[sunking2]

What's the point of making it to the 1% if you can't send your kids to schools that others can't.

Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy

[CrimsonAvenger]

There are many many things that can be improved about this nation. But collage affordability is not one of them.

Yes, one of those things is that people could learn to spell in primary school.

Or does it really cost all that much to make a piece of art that is assembled from a variety of different forms?

How is this news?

[argStyopa]

News flash: NOT EVERYONE DESERVES OR IS ENTITLED TO COLLEGE.

What's next, reporting that "Mercedes drivers are more likely to be from the 1% than the lowest 60%"