A recent paper released by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based team of researchers and policy analysts, found that children of the wealthiest 1% of Americans were 13 times likelier than the children ...

College applications are something that stays on my mind all the time. As a high school sophomore, I have taken every AP class that is offered by my school, gotten straight A's, and maintained a high ...

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As one of the few purely objective metrics in the college-admissions process, standardized-test scores are key to evening the odds for low-income applicants. The University of California system will ...

Van Tsai, who grew up in the affluent community of Moraga, is focused on helping less-advantaged youth get into college. Tsai teaches part time at Monte Vista High School in Danville. At night he ...