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If your goal is to help increase the # of high-achieving, low-income students at highly-selective colleges, you could choose to support a program such as QuestB
by pkfrank 13y ago
If your goal is to help increase the # of high-achieving, low-income students at highly-selective colleges, you could choose to support a program such as QuestBridge. They find / link low-income high school students -- who otherwise wouldn't have the means or access to even apply to many of these schools -- with partner universities.
I'm not sure if the article is trying to persuade potential donors to instead consider "lesser" colleges which might have more socioeconomic diversity. I guess it becomes a question of supporting: fewer low-income students at "better" schools; more low-income students at "worse" schools; or a totally different strategy to level the economic playing field in higher education.
- skywhopper 13y agoThe last paragraph of the article answers your question: "If you want to do something useful for low-income people, give them money. If you want to do something useful for the education of low-income people, give some money to an institution that educates kids from low-income families. That could be a community college or a public charter school or an afterschool program or neighborhood school or whatever you like."