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Direct linkZwick, Rebecca; Ye, Lei; Isham, Steven – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
In US colleges, the scarcity of students from low-income families is a major concern. We present a novel way of boosting the percentage of qualified low-income students using constrained optimization (CO), an operations research technique. CO allows incorporation of both academic requirements and diversity goals in college admissions. The incoming…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Operations Research, College Admission, Admission Criteria
