bob_marley2

Not really? Yes there are other schools that are worse than Stanford, sometimes significantly more but take a top public school like University of Texas which has 5x as many students from the bottom 60% as from the top 1% (5.4% and 27.7%)

Stanford is at 17.5% and 18.6%.

For comparison Harvard is better, MIT is significantly better, on par with Texas, Yale and Princeton are slightly worse.

>All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.

Be careful what you wish for, brain drain is a real phenomena.

How many Billion dollar companies haven't been started because a brilliant but poor entrepreneur was unable to take the risk? How enormous is the societal loss because of this? Frankly I find your position disturbing.

It's not even remotely controversial that students at top schools are overwhelmingly more well off than average. At Stanford theres roughly the same number of students whose families are in the top 1% of income as those in the bottom 60%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-c...