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> Enrollment managers know there is no shortage of deserving low-income students applying to good colleges. This may be true for Trinity College, but I don't t
by Aunche 7y ago
> Enrollment managers know there is no shortage of deserving low-income students applying to good colleges.
This may be true for Trinity College, but I don't think this is true overall. Lower-income students are already less likely to graduate from college than others:
> An even larger gap between graduates of low- and high-poverty high schools was documented as well. After six years, only 18 percent of high-poverty high school graduates achieved a four-year degree compared to 52 percent from schools with low poverty rates.
https://collegeforamerica.org/college-completion-low-income-students/ https://collegeforamerica.org/college-completion-low-income-...
There is an interesting and somewhat depressing this American Life episode related to this, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles.