"Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist
In 2017, a team led by the Harvard economist Raj Chetty discovered that students coming from families who earn more than $630,000 a year, or those in the top 1%, are 77 times more likely to be accepted into an Ivy League school than students coming from families who make less than $30,000 a year. Moreover, it was found that 38 colleges in America, including five in the Ivy League, welcome more students from the top 1% of the income scale than from the bottom 60%, families that make less than $65,000 a year. Ergo, a clear link is drawn between wealth and attending top-tier schools, students from low-income backgrounds constantly receiving reminders that they are the ones who do not belong.
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In Their Own Words: Student Debt Stories from Wisconsinites
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20 Years of Tuition Growth at National Universities
College costs have been on a mostly upward trend for the last two decades. In addition to high tuition prices, paying for housing, food, transportation, books and other school-related fees can add thousands of dollars to college expenses. To cut costs and limit student debt, many families choose to send teens to in-state colleges. But data from the past 20 years shows that the average cost of tuition and fees for private and public National Universities has risen significantly since 2000.......
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A Guide to Why it is 2–3x Harder for International Students to get into Top US Colleges
Financial aid likely explains a large portion of the differential. Because most colleges are need-aware to international students, it’s harder to gain admission since these schools reject some students purely because those students can’t afford the cost of attendance. Meanwhile, the few schools that are need-blind to international students get a disproportionately high number of applications since for many students those schools are their only chance at an American education.......
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