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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most striking point is not just that rich students are overrepresented. It is how concentrated the overrepresentation is at the very top. The top 1 percent being overrepresented would already be notable. The top 0.1 percent being that visible suggests a system that is especially porous to extreme advantage.[/quote] OP here. I am relatively naive to how the campus environment is at these institutions, but I wonder is there even much mingling between economic groups. Take Brown, which apparently has 4.3% of students from the top 0.1%. To do the math, (0.043 * 1339) ~ 57 students per class. That does not seem like a large group overall, but I wonder if they mostly stick together and are able to identify one another by social media signals or overlapping social groups that pre-existed college.[/quote]
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