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The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained with a cartoon

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But as it turns out, this seemingly insignificant bias is partially responsible for turning colleges into institutions that reproduce wealth and exacerbate structural inequality. Research suggests that these values are actually dependent on a student’s class background — and that when students from lower- and working-class families get to college, they face an experience largely shaped by more privileged people.”

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