Each cohort of high-school students includes some 35,000 who are high-achieving and low-income—their test scores are in the top 10 percent and their income is in the bottom quarter. But new research shows that many of them are not applying to the colleges where they would probably have the best outcomes.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/top-performing-low-income-students-and-college-choice/32638?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en