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Conditional on SAT/ACT scores, the academic ratings of students from private high schools with high
admissions rates are no higher than those from public high schools, but their non-academic ratings are
much higher. Since children from the top 1% are much more likely to attend private high schools, these
differences in non-academic credentialing across high schools contribute to the income gap in admissions
rates to Ivy-Plus colleges.
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I have to wonder how much of this “income gap” is actually a “race gap,” or vice versa. Surely the high stats public school students in this analysis are disproportionately Asian American.  Maybe the schools aren’t really racist, “just” classist, and Asian Americans, like all public school students, have EC deficits compared to the prep school kids. Or maybe all public school kids are downgraded as a means of excluding Asians! Either way I’d like to see the analysis controlling for race as well as class and test scores. [/quote]

That's your lens, there are an awful lot of people who are not Asian. The authors confirm the same patterns controlling for race but that's not the focus of this study. Yes, the system is classist, elite schools are selecting for the trappings of wealth, and also further grooming those traits. Intelligence is along for the ride there. The second finding is that this works, mean wages are only negligibly different, but students who attend an elite school are much more likely to earn in the 1%, etc. Regardless, the ship has sailed, moving the needle now requires addressing classism, which is what this study anticipated.

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