The Privileged Path to Prestigious Colleges: Affirmative Action for the Elite
How have the super rich rigged the system to get their kids into elite colleges and keep your kids out? Follow the money!
“Leadership positions in the United States are held disproportionately by graduates of a group of 12 highly selective, private “Ivy-Plus” colleges—the eight colleges in the Ivy League, the University of Chicago, Duke, MIT, and Stanford. Less than one percent of Americans attend these 12 colleges, yet they account for 15% of those in the top 0.1% of the income distribution, a quarter of U.S. Senators and three-fourths of Supreme Court justices.” – Opportunity Insights
Supreme Court blocks Biden’s student loan forgiveness program – CNN
Supreme Court guts affirmative action reversing years of precedence – NPR
Trump’s inaugural Cabinet had more Harvard alumni than Obama’s. – The Atlantic
Charles Kushner gave Harvard $250,000 a year for 10 years to guarantee admission for Jared Kushner, his meritless son. – The Atlantic
Elite universities have billions in endowments but pay very little in taxes – Inside Higher Ed
How is it that your tax dollars pay for the public infrastructure (roads, police etc) that elite university students use to educate the students who are taking away your freedoms?
Follow the money with this relationship map to see how the super rich have rigged the education system.
How affirmative action for the super rich works
Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent. Children from middle- and upper-middle-class families — including those at public high schools in high-income neighborhoods — applied in large numbers. But they were, on an individual basis, less likely to be admitted than the richest…”
- For applicants with the same SAT or ACT score, children from families in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, and those from the top 0.1 percent were more than twice as likely to get in.
- Yet the top 1 percent is overwhelmingly white. Some analysts have proposed diversifying by class as a way to achieve more racial diversity without affirmative action.”
- Children from middle- and upper-middle-class families — including those at public high schools in high-income neighborhoods — applied in large numbers. But they were, on an individual basis, less likely to be admitted than the richest…” – NY Times and Opportunity Insights
Supreme Court pampered by the Super Rich protects their kids right to get into an Ivy Leave college
GOP packed Supreme Court works for the super rich
Supreme Court blocks Biden’s student loan forgiveness program – CNN
Supreme Court guts affirmative action reversing years of precedence – NPR
The study shows, these policies amounted to affirmative action for the children of the 1 percent, whose parents earn more than $611,000 a year. It comes as colleges are being forced to rethink their admissions processes after the Supreme Court ruling that race-based affirmative action is unconstitutional. – NY Times
Congratulations! Your taxes paid for the public infrastructure Harvard used while educating Clarence Thomas
How is it that elite colleges can collect billions in endowments that they use to educate politicians and judges who overturn Roe v. Wade? Ban student loans? Prevent the EPA from fighting global warming to help fossil fuel billionaires like Charles Koch? Tax dodging billionaires dodge paying their taxes but get their kids educated at elite colleges that benefit from taxes paid by hard working Americans? Nice!
TakeAway: End affirmative education for the super rich. Vote for Democrats!
Deepak
DemLabs
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