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Some data on the economic background of MIT students: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/massachusetts-institute-of-technology https:

• akhilcacharya 7y ago
  This is interesting data I hadn't seen, thanks. Intuitively its a little bewildering to see the Median family income of someone from MIT be around the same as someone from UNC (a school I got into) - I wonder how the median incomes of international admits factor in. The bottom 20% of US incomes is between $0 to $25k a year for a household - call me a skeptic but I think its unlikely ~58 (938 x 6.2%) people came from backgrounds like that in America,
  • majos 7y ago
    Confused, you think it’s just too improbable to believe that MIT admitted 60 kids whose parents make <25k yearly? MIT can cherry pick the highest achieving kids in pretty much any national, heck even global, cohort. It seems reasonable to me that there are (way more than) 60 such kids.
    • akhilcacharya 7y ago
      Makes sense globally. Nationally, not as much