Measuring the wealth effect on education

[CityFarmer]

Cityfarmer

I'm a little surprised.

IMHO, the thrust of your article appears to be that "Dr Jerrim said he was surprised to discover a considerable gap in access to selective colleges and universities even after accounting for differences in academic performance as measured by grades or standardised tests."

In other words, even if we pick a sample of students with exactly the same grades, there appears to be a greater tendency for students of a more privileged background to be selected for certain universities.

IMHO, this observation is different from that of students from a privileged background obtaining better grades.

Based on the comments on this thread, our forumners appear to be ignoring the findings of the study or am I just splitting hairs?

Well, I don't seem having the same observation.

Academic grade isn't the ONLY factor, that the privileged students are selected for the universities. Other factors comes into play e.g. confidence, communication skill etc.