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No doubt this is because of the ever increasing cost of going to college in the USA. This favors kids with parents that can pay for some part it, and black and
by misja111 9y ago
No doubt this is because of the ever increasing cost of going to college in the USA. This favors kids with parents that can pay for some part it, and black and hispanic households tend to have less money than other etnic groups.
- cupofjoakim 9y agoThe US should probably look at adopting free higher education. It's pretty good, works very well in Sweden and Germany and so on.
- ThomPete 9y agoHowever there the problem is immigrants not getting proper school education. https://www.thelocal.se/20110524/33968 https://www.thelocal.se/20110524/33968
- jdavis703 9y agoThis won't fix the problems of certain groups being excluded though. We have free public schools in the U.S. and these are still some of the most segrarated insitutions, the overwhelming majority of children go to school where their ethnic group or race is the majority.
- cabalamat 9y agoIt's a shame the study doesn't compare university enrollment by income.
- trentmb 9y ago> No doubt this is because of the ever increasing cost of going to college in the USA. Yeah- the focus on admitting 'well rounded' students has a disproportionate impact on the poor. It's hard to take 50 AP classes, participate in 100 clubs, and buy a humanitarian experience[0] when you're working two jobs outside of school. [0] https://www.globalbrigades.org/ https://www.globalbrigades.org/ and such.