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Hill, Catharine B.; Winston, Gordon C. – Economics of Education Review, 2010
In earlier work, the authors found that only 10% of the students at 28 of the nation's most selective private colleges and universities came from families in the bottom 40% of the US family income distribution and that there is a larger share of low-income high-ability students in the national population than in the student bodies of these…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Family Income, Geographic Location, Selective Admission