"It’s April, which means a sliver of high school seniors across the country are celebrating acceptance letters from the nation’s top schools, while most applicants to those colleges are licking their wounds over rejections. And it’s likely an even smaller sliver of low-income college applicants netted one of those coveted spots. A study released earlier this month offers some insight as to why: admissions officers don’t have enough information about them.
Admissions officers were 26% more likely to recommend low-income students when provided detailed information about them and their high schools, according to the study from Michael Bastedo, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Education and Nicholas Bowman, a professor at University of Iowa’s College of Education." …
Study is linked.