Former Yale professor takes on elite colleges:

[The Captain]

They’re 'exacerbating income inequality'

finance.yahoo.com/news/admissions-process-exacerbates-income-inequality--william-deresiewicz-123520548.html

Deresiewicz, who had a brief stint on the Yale admissions committee in the spring of 2008, firmly believes the college admissions game is “retarding social mobility and perpetuating privilege" especially for the “working-class, rural white.”

He provides numbers to back up his claims in a July New Republic article:

“In 1985, 46 percent of incoming freshmen at the 250 most selective colleges came from the top quarter of the income distribution. By 2000, it was 55 percent. As of 2006, only about 15 percent of students at the most competitive schools came from the bottom half. The more prestigious the school, the more unequal its student body is apt to be.”

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at the above article.

Apparently those of us who do not attent an elite school are doomed, doomed I say!!!