Unequal Choices : : How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College / / Yang Va Lor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Lor, Yang Va,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The American Campus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 p.) :; 1 table

High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for this is that few highly able, socioeconomically disadvantaged students apply to selective institutions in the first place. In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions. For students today, contexts like high schools and college preparation programs shape the type of colleges that they deem appropriate, while family upbringing and personal experiences influence how far from home students imagine they can apply to college. Additionally, several mechanisms reinforce the reproduction of social inequality, showing how institutions and families of the middle and upper-middle class work to procure advantages by cultivating dispositions among their children for specific types of higher education opportunities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Frames of College Attendance -- 2. Frames of College Preparation -- 3. Schemas of Colleges -- 4. Narratives of Interdependence and Independence -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- About the Author