It is entirely possible, in fact, that this is the reason that the thirty thousand packets the College Board mailed out each year to high-achieving low-income students didn’t make much of an impact on the kind of colleges those students attended. Maybe it wasn’t so much that the students who received the packets were reluctant to apply to prestigious colleges. Maybe those colleges were reluctant to admit them—and when they did admit those students, maybe they didn’t give them enough financial aid to make it feasible for them to attend.
