17 mars 2013
Low-Income High-Achievers Don’t Apply to Selective Colleges
By Julia Lawrence. According to a recent study published by Stanford’s Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, low-income high-achieving students often hamstring themselves in their higher education careers by not attempting to gain admission to some of the more selective colleges and universities in the United States. According to Matthew Yglesias writing for Slate, this means that the best schools in the country lose access to as many as 20,000 potential high-performing students per year. It isn’t a surprise that the large proportion of high-achieving students come from families with higher income. Of those whose ACT and SAT scores place them in the top 10% of the student population, only 17% come from families in the bottom quarter of the U.S. population in income. Read more...
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