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college equity gap

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OPINION: ‘The poor kids need what the rich kids have’

Avatar photo by Steve Bumbaugh June 20, 2019April 8, 2021

I arrived on Yale University’s campus in the fall of 1988 with a typical mingling of excitement and terror. I’d been a star at my public high school in Alexandria, Virginia, though that pond was small. Now I was in an ocean of brilliance and wealth. I couldn’t calculate my rung on the hierarchy. Still, […]

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