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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“A large new study, released Monday, shows that [u]it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average or took harder classes.[/u] They tended to have higher SAT scores and finely honed résumés, and applied at a higher rate — but they were overrepresented even after accounting for those things.”[/quote]

this is about the 0.1%.  But to me that is not the interesting story.  the interesting story, which the author of the article mostly ignores (she has one sentence) is that the 60-99% percentile is the loser.[/quote]

What? There’s a whole section titled “The Missing Middle Class” including the following paragraphs:

Children from middle- and upper-middle-class families — including those at public high schools in high-income neighborhoods — applied in large numbers. But they were, on an individual basis, less likely to be admitted than the richest or, to a lesser extent, poorest students with the same test scores. In that sense, the data confirms the feeling among many merely affluent parents that getting their children into elite colleges is increasingly difficult.

“We had these very skewed distributions of a whole lot of Pell kids and a whole lot of no-need kids, and the middle went missing,” said an Ivy League dean of admissions, who has seen the new data and spoke anonymously in order to talk openly about the process. “You’re not going to win a P.R. battle by saying you have X number of families making over $200,000 that qualify for financial aid.”[/quote]

This is a point I'd wondered about previously.  They have a finite pot of financial aid dollars, it's better optics to take one full need student than ten 10% need families, given those families make 200K.  Not clear how that's achieved in a need blind school.[/quote]

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