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Re:Text Your Way to College by blooooo on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:00PM (#13346267)
The exceptions are students who are black, Latino, low-income, or first-generation college attendees. I understand that these populations are a minority in the Ivy League, but they easily combine to be a majority of the country.

So we could more accurately say that Ivies help students earn higher salaries, except for students from certain privileged backgrounds.

Re:Text Your Way to College by dxhdr on Saturday January 07, 2017 @06:00PM (#13347182)
Minor tangent: how strongly does the minority component factor into this, versus the low-income and first-generation components? In other words, does this still apply to high-income, second-generation black and Latino college attendees?

There is definitely quite a bit of overlap as minorities are more likely to be low-income, first-generation college students. When taking that into account it's not clear that those groups form a majority of the population.