Do You Know a High-Achieving Student Kept From College Over Money?
But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, as Delbanco says, we are ignoring many accomplished but poverty-stricken young scholars. Help me test that theory. My e-mail address is at the bottom. Send me the name and contacts of any gifted and motivated students you know who have been unable to go to college because of money. If their stories check out, I will confess my ignorance, tell why this happened to them and help them get where they want to go. Full Story »
Posted by Danny Hollinger
Thousands of poor. talented and intelligent high school students are excluded from college every due to their family's financial resources and a shortage of scholarships to support them in college. Furthermore, Mr. Mathew's premise that a scholarship is the key to college admission for poverty-stricken young scholars ignores the enormous social and cultural challenges students face in making a successful transition from their local communities to a college setting.