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Bender's prediction is coming true. Student fees have risen $1500 since 1961, and now are $3800 a year. Next term they will rise another $400. To an average citizen earning the national median income of $7400, that is a horrifying amount. Yet according to the Harvard Student Study Center's data most students' families can easily afford Harvard. The median income of student' families is$17,500--or almost 2 and one-half times the national median. For Harvard undergraduates, the average family income is $28,000. The fathers of students here are 84 per cent professional semiprofessional, officials...
...good chance of being admitted. This made the sample group of students who did not come as close a match as possible to those who then came. The Harvard Student Study Center data for the class of 1965 shows these applicants who did not come, had a significantly lower median and mean income than those who came. Three times as many non-attenders were below the $7,500 national median, while only one-half as many non-attenders were above $20,000 as opposed to those who came...
...median boards were: Pubbies--708, Preppies--659, Andover and Exeter--700 (SAT). This is very important. If the two groups were of the same intelligence, the ones with the much better preparation should score higher than, or at least as high as the others. Yet at Harvard Preppies are the ones who score lower. Whether or not they are really less intelligent, judging by Harvard's criteria, they are indeed less intelligent. They may be smarter, but they aren't showing it according to Harvard's indicators. What about narture and inheritance? It has not made them as impressive academically...
...this might be that just not enough to get into the Harvard bracket. Considering that the underrepresented income groups outnumber the privileged (i.e., Harvard income) in the population by about 7 to 1 in absolute numbers, the total scoring above 650 could be at least the same. The median preppie family income was approximately $26,000: that of the pubbies, $17,00: the mean for preppies was $45,000; for pubbies, $32,000. The preppie median according to Loewen's survey is three and one-half times the national median and 56 per cent higher than the rest of Harvard...
That, combined with the observation that the average and median incomes of Radcliffe parents stand at $60,000 and $30,000 respectively, leaves little doubt that lower and lower-middle class whites have, to date, fared as poorly, and possibly worse, than blacks in Radcliffe's admissions...