I&#x27;m a well off parent with a kid about to head to college. I don&#x27;t find these numbers surprising in the least.  Here&#x27;s why.<p>My kid, while bright enough, has a lot of advantages:<p>- good schools<p>- parents who care and are involved in his education<p>- tutoring<p>- ADHD medication<p>- We&#x27;re seeing if we can get him more time for tests, he processes slowly but gets good results given enough time (I was similar)<p>Contrast that with some poor kid, no ADHD drugs, no tutoring, parents are too busy trying to put food on the table, they are almost certainly in a crappy school district, the kid is probably working to help put food on the table.<p>If my kid was poor there isn&#x27;t a chance in hell that Harvard would look at him.  It would take a super human to live as a poor kid and somehow be noticed by an elite university.  Any poor kid who makes it into a place like that has my utmost respect.