Limousine liberals love to talk about how much they love the middle class. So why are middle class students so underrepresented in the Ivy League?

Nathan Harden of The College Fix writes.

The Ivy League: Still a Playground for the Rich

Despite supposed efforts to reach out to the nation’s poor, Ivy League universities still overwhelmingly admit the children of the rich.

According to a recent story on Forbes.com, “At Harvard, 45.6% of undergraduates come from families with incomes above $200,000 — in other words, incomes in the top 3.8% of all American households.”

The fact that Ivy League schools are so fond of admitting rich kids is especially ironic in light of the overwhelming political liberalism on those campuses. For instance, more than 95% of all political donations from Ivy League faculty went to Obama in 2012.

We know that liberal Democrats are fond of casting themselves as champions of the poor and downtrodden. Why then do they admit half of their students from the wealthiest 5%? That’s a little hypocritical, don’t you think?

We also know that liberal Democrats love to promote “diversity,” when it comes to skin color, sexual orientation, or gender identity. But why are they unconcerned about the hugely disproportionate presence of the rich on their campuses? Again, it’s hypocritical.

Nothing wrong with rich kids. But there is something wrong with the duplicity of Ivy League liberals.

I attended Yale as a member of the lower-middle class. I remember hearing about all the exotic international vacations my classmates were taking over summer break. I remember how very few of them had ever held down a job as a teenager.

Even as a student, it struck me as ironic that the same professors who got up in class to talk about how the government needs to raise taxes and do more for the poor had no concern for the absence of the poor in their own classrooms. The east-coast liberal elite are happy to protect and perpetuate their own privilege while asking regular working people to hand over more of their paychecks to the government on behalf of the underprivileged.