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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, "While helping first-generation and low-income students succeed is a rallying cry across higher education, the challenge plays out differently at elite colleges, where they tend to make up a smaller share of the student body and where sizable numbers of their classmates come from tremendous privilege. And it may be especially acute at Princeton. After all, two prominent alumnae — the first lady, Michelle Obama, and the Supreme Court justice Sonia M. Sotomayor — have been quite candid about the challenges they encountered there.
The rarefied environment of a place like Princeton can undermine first-generation and low-income students’ sense that they belong there. And research shows that that sense of belonging really matters, influencing students’ academic as well as social experience of college. So elite colleges must make a real effort to help students from less-advantaged backgrounds feel at home."
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