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by xiaosun
3415 days ago
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Top schools attract a disproportionate demographic of wealthy students. Of the 5 schools on the list, students from wealthy families are substantially over-represented in the student body (with MIT being a relative outlier). Nearly half of the student body at each university comes from the top 5-10% by income tier. % of students from top 1% by income ($630K)
UPenn - 18.7%
Stanford - 17.5%
Harvard - 15.1%
Columbia - 13.4%
MIT - 5.7% % of students from the bottom 60% by income ($65K)
UPenn - 16.5%
Stanford - 18.6%
Harvard - 20.4%
Columbia - 21.1%
MIT - 23.4% Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-c... |
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