Despite having financial endowments larger than the GDP of a small country, Ivy League universities love to paint themselves as crusaders against economic inequality. According to a new report however, Ivy League admission policies have long favored the wealthiest students over the poor and middle class.

Analysis by the Equality of Opportunity Project shows that a number of Ivy League colleges have a history of favoring enrollment for students from the top 1 percent of incomes, while students in the lower 60 percent of income brackets make up a significantly lower portion of the overall student population.

For example, Princeton University has employed the socialist professor Cornel West for most of his career. West has repeatedly called for the diversion of wealth from Wall Street to the poor, serves as an honorary chairperson for the Democratic Socialists of America, and even called former President Obama “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black muppet of corporate plutocrats.”

Despite their support for their socialist professor West, analysis of Princeton’s admission policies indicate that for every year from 2000 to 2011, more students from the top 1 percent of household incomes were accepted to the school than were students from the bottom 60 percent of household incomes combined.

Another Ivy, the University of Pennsylvania, recently hired the noted feminist professor Kristen R. Ghodsee. Ghodshee has written articles describing the longing of some individuals in Eastern Europe for the Communist regimes that existed before they fell to capitalism in the 1990’s, and recently authored an opinion piece in the New York Times describing a theory that women had better sex under communist rule.

Although Penn is happy to pay the communist nostalgic Ghodshee a hefty salary, their history of support for applicants from lower income brackets doesn’t seem to square with her views. Similar to Princeton, from 2004 to 2011, Penn has consistently accepted more students from the top 1 percent of household incomes than students from the bottom 60 percent of household incomes.

Despite constantly criticizing the 1 percent and proclaiming to be crusaders for the poor, Ivy League admission policies heavily favor and are influenced by wealth and a potential student’s economic standing. Despite what they say, Ivys love the 1 percent.