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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think those comments are based on this study.

https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/items/d93ad09f-b3ac-42e8-a22c-b024f47558e3[/quote]

And it shows that professors send kids to the kind of school they teach at. Shocking. [/quote]

It states quite a bit more than that.  Research extensive university faculty send their kids to LACs at about 800% the rate of the general population. Compare their 23% rate to national rate of 3% mentioned on top of p19. Also, the authors note that LAC profs have necessarily spent time at both kinds of institutions, so would be the most informed. When LAC profs own employers are excluded the rate to LACs is 44%; when included it’s 49%. Again, LACs only account for 3% percent of undergrads nationally.

That 3% is actually a superset of  baccalaureate colleges that also includes schools with primarily regional draws, because the number of students at what USNWR calls “National Liberal Arts Colleges” is closer to just 1-2% of total, about an order of magnitude fewer undergrads than at R1s. 
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Thanks for the deeper dive, which I’ll admit I did not do myself [/quote]

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