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Beyond The Pearly Gates: White, Low-Income Student Experiences At Elite Colleges, Larissa Hopkins
Beyond The Pearly Gates: White, Low-Income Student Experiences At Elite Colleges, Larissa Hopkins
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Elite institutions are historically infamous for exclusionary admissions practices that regularly denied people of color and low-income populations access to their ranks (Karabel, 2005). The power of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements facilitated some changes in these admissions policies, although elite institutions also generated a rhetoric to suggest that low-income students would not benefit from the philosophical and theoretical orientation of an elite education (Soares, 2007). Small, elite institutions have shifted their values toward embracing student diversity and some have increased access to qualified low-income students through need-blind admissions policies. This qualitative study discusses how previously excluded White students …