Re:Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 ...
by steveBK123 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:47AM
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Ivys are basically majority privileged kids already anyway.
There was a stat that 1% of Americans go to Private High School but 40% of Ivy admittance is from Private High Schools.
Add to that: the % who go to elite selective public HS in systems like NY, the large number of full-freight paying foreign students who represent their local elite and legacy admissions..
If underprivileged kids represent anything above about 5% at Ivy's I would be shocked. One stat from Boston Globe was that only 3% of Harvard comes from the US bottom 20% economically.
The Ivys do more to perpetuate the existing power dynamic than they do to raise anyone up. They are far too small and far too nepotistic to do otherwise.
If you want to raise the middle/bottom up, you need to look at the large state university systems which are orders of magnitude larger.
If underprivileged kids represent anything above about 5% at Ivy's I would be shocked. One stat from Boston Globe was that only 3% of Harvard comes from the US bottom 20% economically.
The Ivys do more to perpetuate the existing power dynamic than they do to raise anyone up. They are far too small and far too nepotistic to do otherwise.
If you want to raise the middle/bottom up, you need to look at the large state university systems which are orders of magnitude larger.