Chip Bayers
Professor
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Loc: New York
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-12-05 07:07 AM - Post#1953
In response to Phil
Doesn't sound like Princeton's an outlier, at least in terms of % of legacy representation. The Economist claimed that legacies across the Ivies were 10-15%; 12.6% would be right in the middle.
The Economist reported that, "Three-quarters of the students at the country's top 146 colleges come from the richest socio-economic fourth, compared with just 3% who come from the poorest fourth." The anecdote about median family income at Harvard was offered to illustrate this.
To your knowledge, is the Princeton student population an outlier in terms of that kind of income distribution? Is it an outlier in terms of being a haven for the children of the educated elite described by Lehmann?
As for Augie Wolf: he's not the kind of person I'm talking about. I'm talking about basketball players. Wolf didn't participate in a major sport, and as a result, accomplished as he might be, his "Q" rating wasn't and isn't ever going to approach that of Bill Bradley then, or Bill Bradley now. The question is whether the Ivies as currently constituted will ever again attract players who could even approach Bradley's stardom, which would be a prerequisite to becoming the kind of highly visible example of Ivy League public service and leadership that Bradley eventually became.
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