From: d@d.d   
      
   Hello..   
      
      
   Meritocracy in America   
      
   Through Downes’, I found out about this nice article about the USA not   
   being such a meritocracy:   
      
   America’s great universities are increasingly reinforcing rather than   
   reducing these educational inequalities. Poorer students are at a huge   
   disadvantage, both when they try to get in and, if they are successful,   
   in their ability to make the most of what is on offer. This disadvantage   
   is most marked in the elite colleges that hold the keys to the best   
   jobs. 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 median family income at Harvard, for   
   example, is $150,000). This means that, at an elite university, you are   
   25 times as likely to run into a rich student as a poor one.   
      
   Read more here:   
      
   Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend   
      
   https://www.economist.com/special-report/2004/12/29/ever-higher-   
   ociety-ever-harder-to-ascend   
      
      
      
   Thank you,   
   Amine Moulay Ramdane.   
      
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