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[quote=Anonymous]Some of it is that kids from higher SES families have greater expectations of attending college. They have had opportunities to travel away from home without parents and are likely to be more comfortable with living away from home. There is also the real possibility that the older child in a lower SES family is balancing school and helping the family so they have an incentive to attend college closer to home to help watch siblings. They may be accepted at UVA and choose GMU because it is easier to help the family.

There are programs in place starting in ES in order to try and help lower income kids or first generation to college kids stay on track to be able to attend college and succeed when they go to college.  There is all sorts of data that show that it is a big jump for kids to make and that many struggle with getting to college and then staying in college.

I don't think that most of the people who have grown up understanding that college was the path they were expected to take understand how hard it is to get on that path if you don't come from a background where that is the norm. Or how overwhelming it is to go away to college and not have support at home who understands the demands at college. [/quote]

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