The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 20, 2017: Low-income Penn students push for expanded application fee waiver availability
“’There are other variables that determine why or why not these students get in that we don’t think about,’ Burcham said. ‘It’s not about us being low-income or first-generation, it’s just that we didn’t have the same opportunities as other students.’
Park viewed the initiative as a part of the UA’s ongoing efforts to foster a more welcoming environment for low-income and first-generation students, such as increasing transparency of hidden course costs.”