A Note on How Well Available Income Information Identifies Low-Income Students. Discussion Paper No. 71 [electronic resource] / Gordon Winston, Catharine Hill and David Zimmerman.

This note looks at the quality of the information on family income that selective colleges rely on to increase equality of opportunity by recruiting high-ability, low-income students. Individual family income estimates embedded in the College Board's search parameters are compared, for 635 rece...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Winston, Gordon
Corporate Author:	Williams College
Other Authors:	Hill, Catharine, Zimmerman, David
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2007.
Subjects:	Family Income. Student Recruitment. Colleges. Selective Admission. Educational Opportunities. Equal Education. Academic Ability. Low Income. Comparative Analysis. Higher Education.