Is class discrimination an intended consequence of these colleges admissions strategies?
I think it is largely unintended, in that the schools would be happy to see more students from poor and working-class backgrounds that they consider qualified. Certainly it’s not intentional to the same extent that limiting the number of Jews enrolling at Harvard was. But I think what ties the two patterns together is that they’re both based on particular definitions of merit that tend to favor socially dominant groups. At the same time, the elite privates have a social-mobility function that they do believe in, even though they actually don’t perform very well in that area. But if socioeconomic diversity is the objective, then the performance of these institutions is woefully inadequate. For example, in a recent study of the proportion of students on Pell grants – those who come from families with income roughly below the median – at the leading 50 universities in the U.S., Princeton ranked dead last, and Harvard and Yale were not much better. In contrast, UC Berkeley ranked second an
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