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Current research focuses on the admissions process of low-income students to elite schools. However, there is a dearth of research to reveal what happens to high-achieving, low-income students once they are admitted and attend classes. Accordingly, this book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. This book chronicles an ethnographic study of 20 low-income men and women in their senior year at Dartmouth College with 4- and 12-year follow-ups.
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Anemona Hartocollis, “Supreme Court Decision Affirmative Action Cheered by College Admissions Experts,” The New York Times, June 23, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-cheered-by-college-admissions-experts.html.
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Jennifer Giancola and Richard D. Kahlenberg, True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities (Landsdowne, VA: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, January 2016), http://www.jkcf.org/assets/1/7/JKCF_True_Merit_Report.pdf.
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Raj Chetty et al., “Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility,” The Equality of Opportunity Project, February 2017, http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/coll_mrc_summary.pdf.
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Giancola and Kahlenberg, True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities, 1.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Caroline M. Hoxby and Christopher Avery, “The Missing ‘One-Offs’: The Hidden Supply of High Achieving Low-Income Students,” (working paper National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, December 2012). www.nberg.org/papers/w18586.
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Giancola and Kahlenberg, True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities.
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Director of Financial Aid, e-mail message to author, January 12, 2004. In contrast to my participant population, the class of 2003 included 80 students with family incomes below $40,000 who were also US citizens. The total number included 46 women and 34 men. Racially, the numbers varied, with 12 African Americans, 18 Asians, 29 Caucasians, 15 Latinos, and 5 Native Americans making up the number of low-income students in the senior class.
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Ibid.
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Dartmouth College, “Apply,” Dartmouth College, accessed December 31, 2004, http://www.dartmouth.edu/apply/generalinfo/tuition/index.html.
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Donald E. Heller, “Pell Grant Recipients in Selective Colleges and Universities,” in America’s Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education, ed. Richard D. Kahlenberg (New York: The Century Foundation, 2013), 157–166.
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Landers, K.H. (2018). Introduction. In: Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63456-2_1
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