Those class straddlers who court or are courted by the “classiest” schools, that is, Ivy League and tier 1 colleges and universities, appear to suffer the most dissonance and personal dis-integration. The conflict increases because elite schools require more cultural capital than community, state, and other colleges, which more commonly serve first- and second-generation college goers. Ivy League colleges are the intended reward for Jean Anyon’s top two groups of elementary school kids, the children of affluent professionals, or the upper middle class, and the children of the executive elite,
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