A modest proposal to fix elite college admissions after the scandal
“There are a bunch of simple methods these schools could use to bring in more poor kids. Stanford’s Caroline Hoxby and the University of Virginia’s Sarah Turner conducted a large-scale randomized study where they sent mailers to high-scoring high schoolers in poor households offering information on applying to highly selective schools, including advice on crafting an application, a waiver of application fees, and information on the net cost of attendance. They found that the intervention, which costs a mere $6 per student, made students 46 percent likelier to enroll in a selective school.”