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There are really not very many middle class students at these elite institutions.
by et2o 12y ago
There are really not very many middle class students at these elite institutions.
- zxexz 12y agoI'd be interested to see if you could provide a reference for that statement. My experience with undergraduates I've met at MIT and Harvard, for example has been that they are predominantly middle class - however with still predominantly more upper class students than working class. Of course, that's just my subjective impression.
- et2o 12y agohttp://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2012/9/27/harvard-real-diversity/ http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2012/9...
- stephencanon 12y agoThe bulk of Ivy League undergraduates come from white-collar professional families. You can quibble about whether that's "upper middle-class" or "middle-class", I suppose, but you don't find most of them at the yacht club.
- final 12y agoInteresting. I studied low at Harvard for two years in the middle 80s. Around 75% of my colleagues were from "yacht club" families. Maybe the things have changed since.
- ForHackernews 12y agoHarvard Law school is very different from Harvard undergrad. I'm sure it skews even more highly toward the rich-daddy set.