The rich get richer department: students at elite colleges come from far more affluent families with far more connections. Their schools spend far more tax free money on their educations and do not ever require them to borrow money. They live and study in plush facilities in the most fashionable neighborhoods in the nation. They then meet, befriend and marry each other guaranteeing the cycle of privilege will continue to intensify. Now they even guarantee their students internships in their field of choice furather cementing the conveyor belt of privilege in place.
How is it that the most politically egalitarian institutions produce the most inequitable results? How is it that the loudest yelps for equity come from the richest, most elite places?
Is it time to stop subsidizing the finishing schools of the ruling class? Before our nation turns into a UK or France where all the elites know and are related to each other?
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