Affirmative action for rich kids: It's more than just legacy admissions : Planet Money A blockbuster new study finds that America's elite private colleges are systematically giving huge advantages ...

In 2018, Princeton University, my employer, ... Legacy students are just a tiny proportion of the pool of privileged kids who are rich in symbolic, social and cultural capital.

Yes, colleges favor rich kids. How much should we care? ... And we can spend far less brain power worrying about how Princeton admits the 1,500 students in its freshman class.

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A blockbuster new study finds that America's elite private colleges are systematically giving huge advantages to rich kids over their equally bright, yet less privileged peers.

Affirmative action for minority kids may now be dead. But a blockbuster new study, released today, finds that, effectively, affirmative action for rich kids is alive and well.