. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families … due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is … students applying from private high schools that have affluent student bodies, and (3) recruitment of athletes, who tend to …

With only a small number of their students coming from families with the lowest incomes (10% from the bottom two family … answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most … advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so …

low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about … 8 percentage points for eligible students in the cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts … performance. We conclude that aid programs targeting low-income, high-ability students are most successful when they couple grant …