Where does a high school senior whose parents didn’t go to college turn to understand the application process?
What resources are available to a student from a remote rural area if she wants to apply to college?
These questions and hundreds more like them are the ones I think about every day. While the number of affluent students graduating from college has grown over the years, the figure has been disturbingly stagnant for low-income students, despite billions of dollars and thousands of national and local programs.
Read more at The Hechinger Report: http://hechingerreport.org/cant-understand-financial-aid-letters-ph-d-can-poor-students-manage/