June 23, 2000
British Universities Said to Snub Needy Applicants
An independent report has bolstered criticisms by Britain's Labor government that needy students are unlikely to win admission to the nation's top universities.
The report, by the Sutton Trust, a nonprofit group that studies issues of education among low-income families, said that each year, more than 1,000 such students demonstrate by their test scores and grades that they should be admitted to the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, or another
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