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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because somewhere along the way a ticket to an elite college also became, in the eyes of parents of privilege, an entitlement to an entire life of privilege for their (aided and abetted by parental wealth).[/quote]

Because if you went to Princeton or Harvard in the 1950s it was something different?   [/quote]

Very different.  Was there a single female at Princeton the 50s?[/quote]

The point is that the idea that this is some new development is ridiculous. If anything it was even worse in the past when only wealthy white males benefitted from elite colleges. I fail to see how the original sentence makes any sense. [/quote]

The ticket to the elite college used to be given to you when you were born into the right family.  It was just a part of the entitlement to an entire life of privilege given to people in that class.  Only relatively recently, has the "elite college" portion been opened to those who were not born elite.  The "near elite" see getting their kid into an Ivy as the fulfillment of all of their elite fantasies.

This has been a chicken or the egg exercise all along.  Were the colleges elite because that's where kids who were born elite went to school, or did they produce "elite" graduates? It will remain to be seen if these colleges retain their allure when the student body is no longer made up of kids who were already there and is full of smart kids with no connections who may or not make something of themselves with their Ivy degree.  [/quote]

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