Study of Elite College Admissions Shows Being Rich Is Its Own Qualification

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/24/upshot/ivy-league-elite-college-admissions.html

by asnyder • 3 years ago

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noduerme• 3 years ago

Wow, sweet. The NYT is finally changing its rhetorical stance from blaming racial inequity to focusing on the glaringly obvious class inequality that's the actual driver of unequal starting points. Is this a sudden shift toward true Marxism, a marker that we're finally getting rid of this false consciousness identitarianism bullshit they've been happily peddling for the past ten years?

[edit] I'm not a Marxist at all, but I really just hate hypocrisy of any type. I prefer the honesty of noting that it is, after all, about money.

[edit2] Also, WTF is wrong with the money of people in the 70th to 90th percentile and why are their kids being undervalued? The giant boost for the top 1% doesn't really displace those kids anywhere near as much as the artificial subsidy for the lower end. Did you ever play with an audio mixer or a mastering equalizer long enough to figure out how no matter which treble or bass parts you push up, you always run into the "wall" of compression and flatten the sound? That's what that chart suggests to me.

anjel• 3 years ago

Envision if you will a 'marxist' (aka consolidated and/but equal) merit competitive based educational system feeding graduates into an otherwise capitalist economy. (As if the verb form of the term Graduated has been rendered archaic, save for cylinders)

Georgelemental• 3 years ago

The "share receiving high ratings" graph near the bottom is quite illuminating.

Study of Elite College Admissions Shows Being Rich Is Its Own Qualification

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