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Mar 12, 2015 · Students are more likely to say they will apply after learning the probable net cost. So low-income students, who in the end will pay quite less than the sticker price of college, avoid applying to these selective schools because of a lack of knowledge about the gap between the gross and the net price. Perhaps schools interested in increasing ...
May 22, 2019 · The rise of poor and minority undergraduates has been most pronounced in public two-year colleges and the least selective four-year colleges and universities, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data.
Jan 18, 2017 · Lower-income students who attend less elite colleges also have outcomes similar to others from the same college.
- Encouraging High-Achieving, Low-Income Students to Apply
- Recommendation 2: Reduce The Costs Associated with applying.
- Automatic Fee Waivers
- Campus Visits
- Recommendation 3: Make The College Application Process simpler.
- Recommendation 4: Customize Messaging to Encourage Low-Income Students to apply.
Smart students from low-income backgrounds are less likely to apply to selective schools even when their abilities and experiences make them ideal candidates for admission. Selective colleges and universities have an important role to play in encouraging such students to apply. We offer five recommendations:
Applying to selective colleges and being competitive enough to gain admission is expensive. We estimate that wealthy students may spend as much as $12,000 or more preparing for and applying to college (Exhibit 3, below). Low-income students cannot afford such investments. Colleges should waive some or all of these costs to make it more feasible for...
Forty-two selective colleges do not require a fee to apply. We commend these institutions for removing this barrier to high-achieving, low-income students. Most other institutions charge an application fee, ranging from $25 to $90. Some other institutions are moving towards having a free application if completed online, and only charging a fee for ...
Traveling for campus visits is reported as among the largest barriers faced by low-income applicants, according to both students and representatives of community-based college access organizations (Exhibits 7 and 8, pages 14 and 15). On the one hand, it is simply not reasonable to expect a student to make a four-year commitment to live in a place t...
For middle-class students with educated parents and well-resourced high school guidance counselors, applying to college is multifaceted and complex. For low-income students with parents who in many cases have not attended college themselves – and whose high school counselors are likely over-worked, under-trained, and carrying overwhelming caseloads...
High-achieving, low-income students often mistakenly believe that they do not “belong” at selective institutions because they do not know anyone from their home community who has ever attended or even applied.23 In addition, 30 percent of high-achieving, low-income students report that some institutions’ websites, materials, or presentations gave t...
We find that, contrary to popular perceptions, the share of students at the 200 most selective colleges who are from low-income families did not decline over the period we studied. Also at odds...
Jan 18, 2018 · Among students who enrolled in degree-granting schools, Black students have enrolled at increasingly less selective institutions than White students, whereas Hispanic–White gaps remained relatively unchanged over the nearly 30 years of our study. These gaps are concerning because of their implications for long-term economic inequality.
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May 5, 2021 · Yet selective colleges — those that accept less than 50% of their applicants — gain that status partly from how few students they allow to access those pathways, both through admission rates and a cost that is prohibitive to large numbers of students.
