Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
New Books in Public Policy
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How Do Students Transition Into Colleges?
The privileged poor have had four to six years to deal with wealthy peers. They come in much more accustomed to dealing with a witeness, wealth and privilege. The dobes draw very bright boundaries between themselves. And really the cod is a whole. They don't want tey, please. As one student at least, she got so gry because she found out a girl on her floor had access to a private jete or took two friends down to new orleans for marnigra. When you go to her room, alise was telling me, you saw pictures of her on sofar because she was riding an elephant. She was no angry that she could do so much
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