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[quote=Anonymous]No one who has ever been to Kalamazoo would claim it's a school for the affluent. That's just not its vibe, ethos, or population. But FYI: While Kalamazoo's percentage of kids from the top 1% is lower -- by a lot! -- than most private colleges, at 5.5%, it is higher than JMU's (which is 2.6%). BUT Kalamazoo also has a higher percentage of kids from the bottom 50% than JMU (16.4% Kalamazoo vs. 12.6% JMU). For context, on the top 1% metric, a lot of prestigious LACs (Nescacs, Davidson, Carleton, etc.) start at 15% of their student body and go up to 25+%. Which is why the whole conversation feels really weird to me. Both of these schools do better than most schools in this metric, which is great. (Yay, Kalamazoo, yay, JMU. Remind me why we're fighting?) Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html [/quote]
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