(Blog) What Makes Admissions Officers More Likely to Admit Low-Income Students?
“A newly published study shows that admission officers at selective colleges are more likely to offer spots to low-income students if they have a better understanding of the high schools those students attend.
The study suggests that a relatively simple intervention—providing additional details about the context from which a student comes—could increase representation of low-income students on college campuses. It found that when admission officers have more detailed information about low-income students’ schools, they’re 26 percent to 28 percent more likely to admit them.”