attendance by family income. My prediction missed badly, bottom 3% of predictors. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&abt=0002&abg=0
Interesting exercise. I was in the 43%, missing badly on the % of rich attending. Won't say how for the others that try it.
90%. I grew up in a poor rural area and the only poor kids who went to college were ones who were motivated because we had discovered we were smarter than average and a lot smarter than the average poor kid. The more prosperous families encouraged their kids to go to college and it seemed to me that they were less likely to finish or do well on average than the more highly self motivated poorer kids. Anecdotal, I know, but that was my observation at the time and still.
huische, My anecdote is along the continuum from yours. I came from a middle to upper-middle class family with both parents college grads. It was understood from birth that all 4 of us kids would go to college. No question permitted. Three of us finished undergrad and grad degrees. An interesting side note: there is research that highly correlates the number and variety of vocabulary words used daily in the home with success at all levels in school.