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Are you planning on giving a lot of money to Harvard or Yale, or maybe Columbia? Stop. It’s not really worth it.

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Ted Bauer

Check out that chart above. Basically, at a highly-selective school, a student is 14 times more likely to be from an affluent family than a poor family. That’s from new research via Brookings, which also notes this: There are number of… Continue Reading →

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