September 28, 2007

Elite Colleges Must Give Low-Income Students the Tools to Succeed

By JULIO ALVES

When I graduated from high school in 1979, I applied to Princeton University because that seemed to be the dream of so many seniors in my northern New Jersey suburban high school. I had assets working for me: I had the second-highest GPA in my class, I had good references, and I was clearly motivated to succeed (although I was an immigrant who started learning English at the age of 13, I graduated from high school in three years). Disastrous SAT scores were the only blemish on my otherwise

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