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Direct linkMothkovich, Troy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
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…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Income, Student Financial Aid, Selective Admission
Peer reviewedRodriguez, Awilda – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Many have called for improved alignment between high school graduation and college admission requirements. However, few have empirically examined the extent to which courses needed for college admission are not offered by high schools, which I call underalignment. Using high school-level data from the Office for Civil Rights, I examined high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Education, College Admission, Competitive Selection
Smith, Jonathan; Pender, Matea; Howell, Jessica – Economics of Education Review, 2013
This paper quantifies the extent of student-college "academic undermatch," which occurs when a student's academic credentials permit them access to a college or university that is more selective than the postsecondary alternative they actually choose. Using a nationally representative dataset, we find that 41 percent of students…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Student College Relationship, College Applicants, Eligibility
McLoughlin, Paul J., II – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2012
This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes the lived experiences of high-achieving, low-income undergraduates and their transition into a college environment historically reserved for wealthy students. The results of this study indicate that these students are flourishing in full need-based financial aid programs as a result of their own…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid, Low Income, High Achievement
Bunnell, Tristan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
The past decade has seen the emergence, predominantly in Thailand and mainland China, of a form of educational institution that has had little scholarly attention or generic identification. This paper shows how the ad hoc and opportunistic franchising of elite English private schools, beginning with the hyper-capitalist exportation of the Dulwich…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Private Schools, Competitive Selection
Dowd, Alicia C.; Cheslock, John J.; Melguizo, Tatiana – Journal of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports a study that improves the authors' understanding of the potential impact of expanded community college transfer access to elite institutions by examining a variety of key questions using two national databases with complementary strengths. By estimating the number of low-income community college students currently transferring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Low Income, College Students
