Data that stopped me in my tracks...

Jenny Anderson has a piece over at the New York Times (see here) today about legacy admissions in colleges.  It contains the following paragraph:

Mr. Kahlenberg, citing research from his book “Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions” made the case that getting into good schools matters — 12 institutions making up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population produced 42 percent of government leaders and 54 percent of corporate leaders.

Wow!  I can't believe this is a good thing for American democracy.