These studies are lagging behind reality by about a quarter century. Academia was obviously starting to become dominated by financial elites as early as 30 year

These studies are lagging behind reality by about a quarter century. Academia was obviously starting to become dominated by financial elites as early as 30 years ago. The non-lagging metric is: how many high-performing students, from non-elite backgrounds, are refusing to pursue academic vocations? This number has been decreasing steadily since the late 80's, and this has been very well documented in the Chronicle of Higher Education.