Now you are the one reading minds (and telling me what I do or don’t know)! Although I grew up in the hood (back in the dark ages), I never claimed to know the mind set of today’s kids. Have you ever seen a survey? I sure haven’t.
My point has always been that we should just not assume that they WANT to attend a tony private (generally NE) college, as most of these articles and research do assume. Perhaps many top low SES students would prefer to attend attend their instate flagship, and enjoy D1 sports, etc.?
Indeed it does. But is the education from say, UVa, U-Alabama or U-Texas or U-Wisconsin, or a UC that much worse than that obtained from the Ancient Eight? Would a top student have that much of a lower grad rate if s/he attended one of those than an Ivy/top LAC? THAT is the question.