Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison

Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison

Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a...

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Main Authors: Sara E. Dahill-Brown, John F. Witte, Barbara Wolfe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2016-04-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Subjects:
higher education
admission
college access
income
college application
Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.04

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http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.04

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