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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle class always gets screwed[/quote]
Please enlighten us, what HHI range constitutes the "middle class"?[/quote]

Harvard admits about 25% of their students from families making less than $85,000.  Those are lower income families and families on government assistance.

If you leave out using upper and lower and middle you have everyone between families who are on government assistance and families who are financially stable but not able to pay for college on their own.  It’s the majority of people who work and how well a family does on a certain income depends on how many children, cost of living, any special needs or costs.   [/quote]

The median household income in the US is under $85K, so this means that students in families making that are less than half as likely to end up attending Harvard as students whose income is above $85K.  I have trouble believing that people from the 2% of families who make 4 or 5% are significantly less than 1% of the population at Harvard.

I do believe that students from families whose incomes are $85K or below are more likely to be weeded out before applications are submitted, in a whole variety of ways, and that a slightly higher percentage of those who apply are accepted because of that, but that's not the same thing as saying those kids have an advantage.  The numbers clearly show that they don't.  [/quote]

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