A different sort of ranking

afan
Thu, 19 May 2005 18:37:02 +0000

Student income definitely affects graduation rates. See

Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner, “Understanding Educational Outcomes of Students from Low-Income Families: Evidence from a Liberal Arts College with a Full Tuition Subsidy Program’, Journal of Human Resources 38 (Summer 2003): 591-617
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and

Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?
by
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang*
Faculty and Research | The ILR School;

SAT scores also predict graduation rates.

“the situation is easier for people with very low EFC”

The claim that life is easier for poor students than for middle class is hard to reconcile with the fact that middle class families rarely give away what money they have to become poor, and make college easier.