Most low-income, high-achieving students in the United States neither attend nor apply to selective universities despite research that shows that they are just as likely as their high-income peers to succeed if they do apply to those schools. Despite the fact that many universities have begun offering substantial financial aid packages that would often make it cheaper to attend a selective private university than a state school, low-income, high-achievers tend not to apply to selective universities. Researchers have carried out many quantitative studies testing possible variables that could influence these students’ college application decisions. However, there has been a lack of qualitative research investigating low-income, high-achieving...
The rising cost of higher education has created substantial access and persistence barriers for low-...
Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other ...
This study sheds light upon the role that financial aid plays in expanding access for financially ne...
One of the main issues at the forefront of higher education policy discussions in the last decade co...
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying the importance of household income for shaping s...
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving high school students in the U.S. either do not apply...
This dissertation examines low-income college attendance and financial aid. The first chapter is an ...
America's top colleges and universities should institute an admissions preference for low-income stu...
One of the main issues at the forefront of higher education policy discussions in the last decade co...
Students from low-income families are greatly underrepresented at selective colleges and universitie...
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying the importance of household income for shaping s...
There has been increasing public concern about whether financial aid programs enable low-income yout...
University education can lead to upward income mobility for low-income students. Being exposed to ot...
We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to an...
In 1999-2000, over 13,000 low-income high school graduates who were eligible for state based financi...
The rising cost of higher education has created substantial access and persistence barriers for low-...
Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other ...
This study sheds light upon the role that financial aid plays in expanding access for financially ne...
One of the main issues at the forefront of higher education policy discussions in the last decade co...
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying the importance of household income for shaping s...
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving high school students in the U.S. either do not apply...
This dissertation examines low-income college attendance and financial aid. The first chapter is an ...
America's top colleges and universities should institute an admissions preference for low-income stu...
One of the main issues at the forefront of higher education policy discussions in the last decade co...
Students from low-income families are greatly underrepresented at selective colleges and universitie...
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying the importance of household income for shaping s...
There has been increasing public concern about whether financial aid programs enable low-income yout...
University education can lead to upward income mobility for low-income students. Being exposed to ot...
We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to an...
In 1999-2000, over 13,000 low-income high school graduates who were eligible for state based financi...
The rising cost of higher education has created substantial access and persistence barriers for low-...
Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other ...
This study sheds light upon the role that financial aid plays in expanding access for financially ne...