Her friend who thought he had failed the entrance exam could well have decided that college wasn’t for him I’d bet there are kids in other neighborhoods who do exactly that. The piece isn’t really about conscious bias among admissions professionals it’s about the social networks through which kids in certain neighborhoods-like the kids in TG’s friend group-have access to information that kids in other neighborhoods don’t. I was reminded of that in reading the Inside Higher Ed piece about how white and Asian students are advantaged in the admissions process to many colleges. Somehow, good information didn’t get through. Several in the group plan to attend Brookdale next year, so it isn’t an issue of lack of interest or lack of relevance.
But for whatever reason, a group of 17-year-olds with college-educated parents didn’t know them. Neither of those pieces of information should be secret. I asked her to mention it to her friends. TG would be eligible for that if she applied to Brookdale she had never heard of it. It’s a state program through which high school seniors who graduate in the top 15 percent of their class get free tuition at their local community college. She was surprised and promised to pass that along.Ī couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the NJ Stars program-I don’t remember the context-and TG asked me what that was. There’s a placement test, but the worst that would happen is you might have to take an extra class to catch up we have a 100 percent admission rate for folks with high school diplomas. I clarified that there is no entrance test. He told TG that he failed the entrance test, so he was concerned that he wouldn’t get in. The latest question that brought me up short came from a friend of hers who wants to attend Brookdale next year. I’ve mentioned before that The Girl has become the go-to person in her friend group for college search advice I’m her source of intel.
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