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@JackMexa4 @dacig
Harvard is an…interesting case study in that respect: there’s a traunche of students (double-digit percentage) there whose families are poor and they’re going on a full ride — some of them the very Black and Latino students you’re thinking of. There’s also a traunche (double-digit percentage) whose parents aren’t just rich, but have more money than anyone you’ll ever meet in your life — not the 1%, but the 0.01%. Last I saw the stats, the school actually has kind of a U-shaped family income curve.

It’s an open question who’s pulling one over on whom: Are the nepo babies just a funding machine to educate the disadvantaged? Or are the scholarship students window dressing for a oligarchic hedge fund dressed up as a school? You can make both cases.