Ran Tao

“Starting in the 1920s, elite universities began admitting students based on their artistic and athletic talents. These criteria initially provided colleges with mechanisms to discriminate against Jews, whose academic performance qualified them for admission.16 However, after adding artistic and athletic talents to the admissions criteria, they took on a life of their own.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“Arts and sports jobs are in what scholars call a “winner-takes-all” labor market—one in which the best of the best earn sky-high salaries and enjoy job security while the remainder receive little at all.9”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“The daughter of a financial manager and a stay-at-home mom, her father’s income allowed her to grow up in a large house in a coastal suburb and his hands-on parenting style and graduate school education gave her a live-in tutor and academic coach.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

“A four-year college degree and professional job define membership in this social class, and only about one in five white American children have at least one parent with these statuses.”
― Jessi Streib, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall