Do High Elite University Admission Rates for the Upper Class Mean Society Is Unfair?
In the United States, students from affluent backgrounds are vastly overrepresented at highly selective colleges. Only a tiny fraction come from low-income families. Among the students enrolled at the hundred or so most competitive colleges and universities, more than 70 percent come from the top quartile of the income distribution, while only about 3 percent come from the bottom quartile. Micha..