Here's a related article from today's SF Chronicle about college attendance and family wealth:
College attendance: How family income impacts who goes to Stanford vs. UCLA and UC Berkeley
Summary:
- After normalizing for grades and test scores, private colleges in California except for CalTech still have a higher proportion of students from the top 1% of income. Loyola Marymount is the top with 7x the amount students from the top 1% than their share of the population.
- The public UC schools have a significantly lower proportion of students from the top 1%.
- Attendance depends on 3 factors: applications, admissions, and enrollment. The discrepancy is different at each college but the results are similar.
College attendance: How family income impacts who goes to Stanford vs. UCLA and UC Berkeley
Summary:
- After normalizing for grades and test scores, private colleges in California except for CalTech still have a higher proportion of students from the top 1% of income. Loyola Marymount is the top with 7x the amount students from the top 1% than their share of the population.
- The public UC schools have a significantly lower proportion of students from the top 1%.
- Attendance depends on 3 factors: applications, admissions, and enrollment. The discrepancy is different at each college but the results are similar.

