Here’s How To Get Smart, Poor Kids Into Top Colleges

In a recent story for ABCNews and Univision, Emily DuRuy writes that the “stakes are high for granting more poor students access to quality higher education” and highlights a recent Hamilton Project discussion paper, “Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project.” In the paper, Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia present a strategy for improving college outcomes for high-achieving, low-income students. Building on previous research showing that most high-achieving, low-income students do not even apply to selective colleges, Hoxby and Turner propose expanding a recently piloted informational intervention called the Expanding College Opportunities (ECO) Project. To read the full piece, click here.