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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top is actually doing great. Most diverse economic and racial elite we’ve had in history. Students are all qualified to attend, maybe their stats are different but they all have the academic potential to excel. More people than ever can afford an elite education.

At the lower level, state schools are taking control over the lost lac applicants and rising costs of college. A lot of state schools are serving a different and expanded range of students[/quote]
More people than ever can afford an elite education? Really? I think a lot of people are reevaluating the ROI on pricey schools. [/quote]
The top 30 and top 20 LACs are pretty affordable for the majority of American families. There’s that weird upper middle class bumper where it’s difficult, but schools are working on it and that represents a pretty small sliver of American families.[/quote]

The donut hole (families with HHI between the 80th and 99th percentiles) may only represent 19% of American families, but they represent 50% of all students meeting both college-ready benchmarks on the SAT (ERW 480, Math 530). And the higher you draw the academic line, the bigger the proportion of American students who come from donut hole families. If you are talking about American students qualified for selective colleges, the donut hole is not a weird wrinkle in the college market—for all intents and purposes it is the college market. [/quote]

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