How and Why You Diversify Colleges

I wonder how many kids who could get into Yale attend CS-F?

It seems to be the accepted conventional wisdom that poor kids should go to the “best” school they can get into (and maybe everyone - that’s kind of why CC exists), but I’m not sure what the evidence is that poor kids do better in those more selective/elite/endowed/whatever schools.

The very well endowed ones will make it cheapest for them, and will cover things like books and travel, should they be able to get in, so that’s an obvious advantage. But it’snot clear that if they could go to Yale or CS-F with all expenses paid that they’d do better (graduate on time) at Yale. Maybe they’d do exactly as well at a lower tier school, I haven’t seen any evidence either way.

Perhaps someone else has.