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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ This is a quote from the same article:

“Children of the top one percent, earning more than $611,000 a year, are significantly overrepresented in the Ivy League — more likely to attend selective private colleges than students from any other income bracket with comparable SAT and ACT scores.”[/quote]
Have you actually read the Opportunity Insights study cited in the article? Look at Figure 3 and tell me how the lower income brackets are doing in admissions relative to those outside the top 0.1 percent.
https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Nontech.pdf[/quote]

DP. Did you actually read the 2-part post you’re responding to. If you read both posts, you’ll see that you’re saying the same thing (e.g., impoverished students (Pell grant recipients and the like) do slightly less well than the top 1%). It’s those in the top 5-10% income bracket that fare the worst.

Which group do you think is most likely to send their children to public school [b]AND[/b] is also responding to this thread? Pell grant recipients, the top 5-10%, or the top 1%?[/quote]
LOL, you aren't reading the study carefully either. Of course the top 1 percent does the best. But are you claiming that those families in the 20th to 90th income percentiles, which all do better than the top 5 to 10 percent, are all "impoverished"? If not, then your statement is pointless.[/quote]

Families at the 90th income percentile earn approximately $210,000 (as a household). Look at Figure 3 carefully. 
Students from households that make between the 70th to 95th income percentiles fare about the same in college admissions, at Ivy+ schools (which is to say, not great). You have to drop below the 70th percentile to start to see the “poverty bump.” I would say that the vast majority of families that live in/near cities, that fall at or below the 70th income percentile (less than $120,000/year household income), are working poor. Even then, the poverty bump isn’t significant until you reach the 20th to 60th income percentile ($30,000 to $90,000/year household income). For a family, that’s poor. Those people are not posting on this thread. Your public school children won’t benefit from this. 
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