Guiding College Gap

In ”Guiding a First Generation to College”, Tina Rosenberg discussed that how to help high-achieving poor students to get into College. In the paper, “About 30,000

students from poor families score in the top 10 percent on the SAT or ACT college

entrance exams and yet don’t go to selective schools. And nearly a quarter of

low-income students who score in the top 25 percent on standardized tests never

go to any college.” In fact, there are many resources can help reduce the yawning

dimensions of the college gap. Tina Rosenberg points out one big part of the

divide is the information disconnect. She mentions in the paper that “ lack

college-educated parents often don’t know how important college is.” and “Most

are unaware that top colleges

We should help student to use those

resource and to narrow the information gap.

I believe education can bring us a bigger vision of the world so I do agree that the

key to narrow down the gap between the rich and poor is education. If we want to

reduce the college gap, we should let everyone have the same right to get

education without considering financial issue. The true is, however, the tuitions of

the top college are very expensive and the academic qualified poor students

cannot afford it even they have student aid. For example, a past news in 2014,

“Adult film star, Duke student talks college affordability”, in her case, even after

student aid, she still faced a $47,000 bill to attend Duke University. In an interview

with Time magazine in June 16, 2014, She said “Instead of focusing on my

decision to perform in porn to pay my tuition, let’s start paying attention to what

got me here: artificially inflated demand for college that pushes tuitions sky high”.

Therefore, I think we need our government to solve the high tuition problem that is

a direct aid for those high-achieving poor students.

Learning to use resources is a very important skill. In colleges, there are