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Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by Retric on Thursday May 28, 2015 @01:54PM (#9619857)
A lot of this relates to where people grow up. If nobody in your high school expects to go to college then that's a huge influence. Even something as simple as signing up for the SAT's is simply off the radar. Not to mention things like how much education your parent’s friends and coworkers have.

Income strongly correlates with zip code so it's hard to figure out the 'root' cause such things.

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Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by netcan on Thursday May 28, 2015 @07:02PM (#9621732)
And all these things have circular correlation. Parents, zip code, school mates, family, income, education...

This is why I think 'class' is a useful approximation. It's some sort of fuzzy unit characterised by these things.

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