Crimson Academy nets promising results

The Bay State Banner
November 3, 2011— vol. 47, no 13
Kenneth J. Cooper

Harvard University and other elite colleges have encountered criticism because students from upscale families have come to dominate the schools’ black enrollments. African American alumni of an earlier generation and other critics want more low-income students admitted.
National studies, though, show that only a small percentage of high school seniors from poor African American or Hispanic families even apply to the country’s best colleges. Most of these students incorrectly assume they would never get into top schools or could not possibly afford to attend them.
For most of the past decade, seven college-prep programs — most housed at Harvard and other prestigious private universities — have made some headway in reversing this trend and misconception.

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