Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by Dude
Why American Colleges Are Becoming a Force for Inequality

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High-income students account for about a third of the high-achieving students graduating from high school (see graph above). But estimates suggest that 74 percent of students at the top 146 top colleges came from the richest quartile of households.

Richest quartile isn't "rich".

It isn't even UMC.

I agree. Even quintiles would have been a better statistical measure, though not by much.

But the figures do illustrate how middle and lower class high achievers are being left out.