score gap between these students that cannot be explained by differences in individual and family characteristics. Moreover …, I show how this gap evolves over the test score distribution and how the least favorably-endowed students fare. My … when comparing only students whose parents migrated from the same country of origin. …

scores rightward, moving students into higher quartiles of the state SAT score distribution. Boston’s charter high schools …

of less able students. As we argue in the paper, this adjustment benefits low-ability college students at the expense of … colleges become a less appealing alternative for the medium ability students. The selective, elite colleges therefore adopt a … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …