Perspective: We’ve had the scandal about rich kids bribing their way into college. Now, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?
Anthony Abraham Jack is the author of “The Privileged Poor,’’ which looks at how elite colleges and universities fail scholarship students, and offers solutions. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Reporter April 2 at 11:29 AM Anthony Abraham Jack is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of an important new book, “The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students.
As shown in Jack’s “The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students,” getting in can mean going hungry over spring break, cleaning the toilets and showers of dorm mates, and being directed to separate entrances at events. The students interviewed in Jack’s book provide an important contrast to the well-connected celebrity parents who are all over the news these days, thanks to the Operation Varsity Blues scandal — which has so far resulted in charges against 50 people in a bribery and cheating scheme aimed at getting unqualified students into some of the nation’s most competitive colleges.
Most public schools in the United States don’t have a single staff member dedicated to college admissions guidance — a major reason why, at The Hechinger Report, we are partnering with the makers of Personal Statement, a film documenting the challenging admissions journeys of three public high school seniors from Brooklyn, to bring public attention to this crisis.
In Austin, Tex., last month, I listened to Jack talking about his new book at the SXSWedu conference, before a packed audience. His panel included Marissa Reyes of Barnard College, a low-income, first-generation, Mexican American student who has spoken of experiencing “impostor syndrome” and described leaving Barnard in her sophomore year, in part spurred by the vast distance she felt from some of her fellow students.
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