Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.
Students at elite colleges are even richer than experts realized, according to a new study based on millions of anonymous tax filings and tuition records… Roughly one in four of the richest students attend an elite college – universities that typically cluster toward the top of annual rankings (you can find more on our definition of “elite” at the bottom). In contrast, less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the bottom fifth of American families attend an elite college; less than half attend any college at all.
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by Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy, The New York Times.
