What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You - The Atlantic

Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 9:42 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The graduates of America’s most elite universities dominate our economy and culture so disproportionately that the statistics can seem like a mathematical glitch. Students at Ivy League schools and the similarly selective University of Chicago, Duke, Stanford, and MIT together comprise less than half a percent of America’s undergraduate population. Yet their alumni represent more than 12 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs, 32 percent of all New York Times journalists, and 13 p

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