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(Opinion) For Low-Income Students, Public Colleges Are The Ivy League For Economic Mobility

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“The case for college as social mobility escalator got stronger earlier this year, when five economists published a study showing that public institutions don’t lag far behind elite private schools in getting the poorest students into the top fifth of the income scale. ‘What we found really surprising is other schools have outcomes nearly as good as Ivy League schools, but [they] admit many, many more poor students,’ one of the study’s authors marveled.”

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