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When working-class women attend elite colleges.
"Congratulations! Your parents must be very proud of you," a Harvard alumnus told a freshman during orientation, after giving lots of kindly advice for making the most of the next four years. "Where did they go to college?"
"My parents didn't go to college," she replied. He choked, mumbled, coughed a few times and excused himself to get another drink.
Upper middle-class assumptions and culture infuse American higher education, especially at elite private colleges. No matter how talented the daughters of working class parents, their dress and speech mark them as outsiders.
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