The 20% Solution: Selective Colleges Can Afford to Admit More Pell Grant Recipients
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A majority of Pell Grant recipients attend open-access colleges with low graduation rates (49%) even though thousands are qualified to attend selective colleges with high graduation rates (82%). The 20% Solution: Selective Colleges Can Afford to Admit More Pell Grant Recipients finds that about 86,000 Pell Grant recipients score at or above the median on standardized tests for students at selective colleges (1120 or higher on the SAT/ACT) but do not attend them.
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2017-05Rights
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