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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistically speaking, upper class America is dominated by schools outside the Ivy League, not elite Ivy grads. The latter gets the attention but the former is the clear majority.[/quote]
You're mixing two different things. I'm going to use random numbers as an example.

The odds of being upper class after attending an Ivy = 30% multiplied by 10000 grads per year = 3000 upper class Ivy League grads
The odds of being upper class after attending a non-Ivy = 5% multiplied by 2 million grads per year = 100000 upper class non-Ivy League grads

This explains why your chances of being upper class are much better by attending an Ivy, even though there are way more upper class folks who didn't attend one.[/quote]

What you're ignoring is this question:

Do the elite colleges admit kids who are already destined for the American upper classes?

Hmm? Ivy grads are already heavily disproportionately from the upper classes so it's not surprising they have upper classes outcomes. Just like their siblings or friends or socioeconomic peers who didn't go to the Ivies.

There's anecdotal evidence everywhere and people can extrapolate anything they want from them and while anecdotes are great they are also limited. There are students who lucked into an Ivy and suddenly found themselves surrounded by peers who nudged them into the right direction and helped them realize if they went to law school or did this or that they could literally walk into a solid six figure income for life, a game changer for them. And it happened. To many. But many others didn't need that knowledge because they grew up in a world where professional success is ingrained from early on thanks to parents and neighborhoods and friends. They didn't need the Ivy to figure this out. [/quote]

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