Anthony Abraham Jack Privileged poor

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• Getting in is only half the battle.
• The Privileged Poor reveals how-and why-disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
• The Ivy League looks different than it used to.
• College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors-and their coffers-to support a more diverse student body.
• But is it enough just to admit these students?
• In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus.
• Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance.
• This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
• Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover.
• These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own.