Nepotism/Wealth at Top Colleges List
Saw a chart on twitter that showed how much more likely it was for a wealthy student to get into a college as opposed to the average. Curious if this ties into nepotism rates that others have seen as well. Attaching the list below (higher number = larger correlation between wealth and acceptance).
1. USC - 2.1x
2. Dartmouth - 1.9x
3. Northwestern - 1.7x
4. Duke - 1.5x
5. Vanderbilt - 1.5x
6. NYU - 1.6x
7. Brown - 1.4x
8. Penn - 1.4x
9. Harvard - 1.2x
10. Yale - 1.2x
11. Johns Hopkins - 1.2x
12. Georgetown - 1.2x
13. Stanford - 1.1x
14. Princeton - 1.1x
15. Cornell - 1.1x
16. UChicago - 0.8x
17. MIT - 0.7x
Does this prove that Cornell, UChicago, and MIT are the least nepo schools?
I do know of a lot of rich/nepo kids at duke northwestern and dartmouth so the list adds up. The reason I think that harvard and yale are lower is because they also accept a lot of kids from the poorest 20% as well as the upper 1%, which makes it difficult for middle class kids to get in and deflates their correlation number. This is different from the first 4-5 schools on that list as they accept a far lower % of poor students.
Funny enough I think MIT is absolutely the least nepo school on the list as well, but UChicago is pretty nepo so i dunno why they’re that low.
Chicago’s culture means it’s a different kind of nepo, though. It’s academic/intelligent nepo vs rich dumbass nepo.
And before anyone asks I go to a school that’s the opposite of Chicago.
what school
cornell hotel school's nepo rate def tops this list
I go to Cornell, and this is unironically true
Lol hotel management
Would never hire from a lot of schools on this list. Cornell, NYU, Vanderbilt - hard workers yes. Rest are majority privileged, elitist or pretentious.
Found the Stern grad
found the BYU grad
Found the SMU graduate
Found the IU grad
It has been quite some time since I went to college. Is Northwestern known for nepotism? Never knew much about the school. Also, people from my private high school in CT would go to UChicago if their SAT/GPA was above some score (but below that for Harv/Princeton/Stan) along with their tax bracket being like top 1%.
Yale and Harvard seem incredibly low on this list. Wonder how my alma mater Williams would be on this list
UChicago is extremely nepo, they let anyone with a pulse in as long as they went to Exeter/Choate/whatnot
Can confirm. The bar for a public high school student was much higher than that of a private school kid.
I don't understand why the fuck it is so hard for schools to accept students on the basis on PURELY MERIT. They shouldn't be asking family income questions until after giving an admission offer and only for financial aid considerations, etc.
I think the answer to your question is relatively straightforward. Schools need money. Wealthy families are both more capable and more inclined to give money to that school's endowment than less wealthy families. It's not necessarily fair, but the economic logic makes sense.
well why say Need blind on your admissions page lol.
Yeah! Stern way ahead of Wharton on this one!
Tulane is very elite is this way
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