Harvard Economics professor Raj Chetty ’00 discussed the role that privilege and wealth play in elite college admissions at a Harvard Graduate School of Education event Tuesday afternoon.
Admissions officials, undergraduates, and College staff flooded Longfellow Hall to hear Chetty present research from his latest paper, which was released in July through Opportunity Insights, a group of economists led by Chetty. The talk — which was hosted by the Askwith Education Forum and Harvard’s Partnering in Education Research Fellowship Program — drew more than 150 attendees, including Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana and Dean of Students Thomas Dunne… Read more at The Harvard Crimson