B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 1 但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJ， 那你上精英大学的几率是百分之百！
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
by Shankar Vedantam
January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they select a freshman
class for the fall.
If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard
and Stanford will try hard to find talented high school students from poor
families in a push to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus and to
counter the growing concern that highly selective colleges cater mainly to
students from privileged backgrounds.
Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but
also free room and board for top students from poor families — meaning it
can be less expensive for these students to attend Harvard than a state
school or a community college, says Caroline Hoxby, an economist at Stanford
who tracks these students.
Each year, however, colleges are confronted with a paradox: No matter how
many incentives they provide, enrollment of highly talented, low-income
students barely seems to budge.
After Harvard offered what was, in essence, a free college education to
students whose families earned under $40,000 a year, Hoxby says, "the number
of students whose families had income below that threshold changed by only
about 15 students, and the class at Harvard is about 1,650 freshmen."
Hoxby says some college administers had confided to her that they had
reluctantly come to the conclusion that the pool of low-income students with
top academic credentials was just limited, and there wasn't much they could
do to change that.
But in an analysis published with Christopher Avery in December, Hoxby has
shown that this conclusion isn't true. There is in fact a vast pool of
highly talented, low-income students; they just aren't ending up in top
schools.
Hoxby says in an interview that she asked herself why talented students
might escape the attention of college administrators, when the
administrators were looking so hard for these students.
"The students whom they see are the students who apply," she says, of
admissions officers. "And if a student doesn't apply to any selective
college or university, it's impossible for admissions staff to see that they
are out there."
Hoxby found that the majority of academically gifted low-income students
come from a handful of places in the country: About 70 percent of them come
from 15 large metropolitan areas. These areas often have highly regarded
public high schools, such as Stuyvesant in New York City or Thomas Jefferson
in the Washington, D.C., area.
Low-income high-achieving students at these schools have close to 100
percent odds of attending an Ivy League school or other highly selective
college, Hoxby says.
The reasons are straightforward: These schools boast top teachers and
immense resources. They have terrific guidance counselors. Highly selective
colleges send scouts to these schools to recruit top talent. And perhaps
most important, students in these schools are part of a peer group where
many others are also headed to highly selective colleges.
Hoxby and Avery found that top students who do not live in these major
metropolitan areas were significantly less likely to end up at a highly
selective school. These students were far less likely to find themselves in
a pipeline that ended at an Ivy League school.
"Imagine a student who is the only student who is a likely candidate for a
place like Harvard or Stanford or University of Chicago — and he's not just
the only student in his or her high school, but he's the only student that
that high school has graduated like that in, say, three or four years,"
Hoxby says.
Without mentors and academically talented peers, Hoxby says, many of these
students fail to apply to schools that can offer them a premium education
free of charge. And because the students are widely dispersed across the 42,
000 high schools in the country, college recruiters have a hard time finding
them.
Hoxby is working on interventions to reach these students and to give them a
clear picture of their choices. She doesn't believe all these students need
to necessarily end up at a highly selective college, but she wants them to
clearly understand that they have that choice. | t******d
发帖数: 156 | 2 Postdoc 的孩子成为聪明的穷孩子应该不难吧.
百！
【在 B******1 的大作中提到】
: 但是如果你是一个聪明的穷孩子，而且考上了 TJ， 那你上精英大学的几率是百分之百！
: http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168889785/elite-colleges-struggle
: Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids
: by Shankar Vedantam
: January 09, 2013 3:31 AM
: Across the United States, college administrators are poring over student
: essays, recommendation letters and SAT scores as they select a freshman
: class for the fall.
: If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard
: and Stanford will try hard to find talented high school students from poor
| B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 3 博士后不能算穷人吧？有的博士后一年挣五，六万呢！
文章中说的主要是那些家里父母可能都没上过大学的穷学生。他们即使成绩突出，但由
于种种原因，没有申请精英学校。
【在 t******d 的大作中提到】
: Postdoc 的孩子成为聪明的穷孩子应该不难吧.
:
: 百！
| N***M
发帖数: 4295 | 4 很不幸
现实是这样子的
【在 B******1 的大作中提到】
: 博士后不能算穷人吧？有的博士后一年挣五，六万呢！
: 文章中说的主要是那些家里父母可能都没上过大学的穷学生。他们即使成绩突出，但由
: 于种种原因，没有申请精英学校。
| t******d
发帖数: 156 | 5 NIH 的 postdoc 可以申请政府的贫困房，我听几个postdoc说的。他们也申请了。而且
，父母的学术背景对申请精英学校也会加分吧
【在 B******1 的大作中提到】
: 博士后不能算穷人吧？有的博士后一年挣五，六万呢！
: 文章中说的主要是那些家里父母可能都没上过大学的穷学生。他们即使成绩突出，但由
: 于种种原因，没有申请精英学校。
| N***M
发帖数: 4295 | 6 校友
捐了多少款也会加分吧？
【在 t******d 的大作中提到】
: NIH 的 postdoc 可以申请政府的贫困房，我听几个postdoc说的。他们也申请了。而且
: ，父母的学术背景对申请精英学校也会加分吧
| c******n
发帖数: 663 | | c*******o
发帖数: 5387 | 8 re
【在 N***M 的大作中提到】
: 校友
: 捐了多少款也会加分吧？
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