At Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Penn, & Brown more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html …
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Replying to @math_rachel @vkhosla
1) Ivies select for intelligence. 2) Intelligence is hereditary. 3) Intelligent people make more money on average. That explains most of it. A little of it is explained by donors/expectations about future donors.
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According to Carol Dweck, intelligence is malleable and can be incrementally increased over time with persistence and learning
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Ivies select for endowment potential & only partially for IQ. I suspect IQ is more evenly distributed (but can't prove) among Ivy families and non-Ivy families though I vaguely remember old studies that IQ is independent country, culture etc. I'd bet
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If only there were standardized tests that college applicants took, that correlate strongly with IQ. That might shed some light on this.
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SAT and ACT not correlated with IQ. ETS has acknowledged that there might be socioeconomic bias in SAT Q’s. Scoring well on those tests only means that one knows how to take those tests well. Source: am former The Princeton Review teacher
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"not correlated" = 0.8
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What do you have to say for yourself An "data-driven decision maker" Bui?
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @gcochran99 and
Can a kid cheat at an iq test?
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