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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Except when you control for geography, research faculty barely send their kids to LACs at higher rates than the general population.
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No. You have to add high income to advanced degrees to living in an area with a high concentration of LACs to then get to a population (informed enough to be) within 10% of the rate of university faculty but still less than half the rate of (the most informed group) the LAC faculty that necessarily also attended universities. In fact, the authors even say in regards to table 12 “The differences in patterns noted in each of the earlier comparisons persist, albeit with somewhat less intensity.”

Also, if looking at geographically controlled but low income staff, their rate is actually lower than when just low income, suggesting it’s not region alone giving any boost.

Also, per the authors, “With and without regional weights, the children of staff display a different pattern of college choice than the NELS comparison group.”[/quote]

DP. I read this several times but don’t understand what you are saying.

I get high income + advanced degree + geography w/high concentration of LACs = something…

…but I don’t understand “within 10% of the rate of university faculty but still less than half the rate of (the most informed group) the LAC faculty that necessarily also attended universities.”

Is this saying that *non-academics* who are upper-income, have advanced degrees, and live in an area with lots of LACs (so, like, not the southwest) are the only ones who come close to demonstrating a preference for LACs that’s even close to that of research faculty? 
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