You aren't getting into MIT and Yale grad on money and family ties. You literally need to be 1% level smart.
Undergrad is a different story for Yale.
That’s a lie - there was a pay for play scheme and a scheme in which “exceptional” students from elite schools are only accepted into undergrad and grad programs which creates a barrier to kids who economically can’t attend those types of schools. Give me a break with the rich kids= smarter kids bullshyt. what you’re not going to do is sit there and tell us that 100% of those getting into these schools are “smarter or possess some type of genius intellect” like black students aren’t capable when given the right opportunities and environment especially when there’s inherent racial and economic bias in the academic selection system .
“With these extra opportunities, students from elite schools have a far higher chance of showing exceptional abilities than students from poorer schools. That’s not because the students from elite schools have more talent; rather, they have more opportunities to exhibit and develop their talents.
And this influences their chances of getting into a highly selective college.” Thereby bettering their chances to get into a highly selective grad program.
“In a recent
working paper, Uma Jayakumar and I identify three causes of bias in favor of students in well-off areas. First, a student who tries four times as many sports and activities will be four times as likely to show exceptional results. We call that an “opportunity effect”: more opportunities increase the likelihood of success
. Thus, the New Trier student or Harvard Westlake student, who has the opportunity to try more sports, has a higher likelihood of showing exceptional abilities.
Second, students at wealthy schools have the chance to try elite sports — which results in a “specialization effect.” Becoming a college-level water polo player requires having the opportunity to play water polo — which is available to approximately 22,000 high school boys. By comparison, more than a million boys play football; more than a half million play basketball; and another half-million run track. If Princeton has roughly the same numbers of admissions slots for each sport, then the water polo player is more than 40 times more as likely to become a Princeton athlete.
Third, students at elite schools have access to better coaching, better facilities and more family support — which offers them what we call a “support effect.” With more support, they are more likely to excel.
These three effects combine to produce a substantial advantage. Our crude initial estimate suggests that kids from advantaged schools may be 10 to 20 times more likely to show the exceptional talent desired by elite colleges. Once we undertake a more nuanced and careful analysis, that range will probably tighten. We expect to find huge advantages in particular sports like fencing, skiing, and crew.
Yes,
William Singer — the college admissions adviser at the center of the current fraud scandal — claims to have altered the test scores of potentially hundreds of students per year. But that focus on overt cheating and fraud may distract attention away from a much broader bias toward wealthy families: the emphasis on exceptionalism in elite college admissions.”
“Wealth cannot purchase innate talent. But it can provide access to elite — and less competitive — sports and activities like fencing, water polo, crew, classical music, debate and dance. It can provide better coaching, counseling, stronger familial support. As a result, students from wealthy families are much more likely to get into elite colleges — not through cheating, but through the selective back door available primarily to those from wealth.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/real-college-admissions-scandal-isnt-bribes-cheating-its-how-wealth-tilts-playing field/%3FoutputType%3Damp
tl/dr - the wealthy can purchase talent and academic opportunities but that does not equate to level of integrity or intellectual depth.