Elite: Who attends elite universities?
the authors find that students with wealthy parents enjoy a large advantage in elite college admissions that academic credentials alone cannot explain. Moreover, graduates of these institutions reap significant monetary and nonmonetary rewards compared to similar college graduates who attended less-prestigious schools. New Study Investigates Why Elite Colleges Favor Rich Kids (forbes.com) And this applies to elite journalists as well: The twelve most prestigious private schools (the Ivy League plus the University of Chicago, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of…