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The Privileged Poor

How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

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The Privileged Poor

By: Anthony Abraham Jack
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
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Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.

The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors - and their coffers - to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.

If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages - advice we cannot afford to ignore.

©2019 Anthony Abraham Jack (P)2019 Tantor Education Social Sciences Sociology Student

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Great read, very easy to listen to and follow along with the physical book. Required reading for any social economically disadvantaged youth going to college, grad school or is navigating college right now. Professors, policy makers, donors, take a listen!
An eye opener!

I resonate so much!

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Appreciated the sound research and use of qualitative data to share an important story. The author is a top notch sociologist worthy of more exposure.

Excellent conversation about students who are unfortunately often overlooked.

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good observations, though wonder how #metoo movement and increasing anti sexual harassment policies affect recommendations

thought provoking

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I have so many thoughts! This book should be a must read for educational administrators.

Academic access cycle

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I really enjoyed the book, but the narration was a bit distracting for me. I wish it was from the author himself!

Really enjoyed the book!

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An outstanding book that really took me back and made me reflect on my own years in college as a poor, first gen student at an elite university. Cafeterias were closed for breaks and we had no food. I had a loaf of bread and PB & J. That’s all. I didn’t live far from home, but home wasn’t safe. One of my parents died from a drug overdose during my junior year in college, at a time when I felt like I’d finally gotten the hang of things. I was thrown for another loop. Life was and is so hard for us as we try to navigate elite/privileged landscapes. My spouse comes from an elite world and could relate to that perspective.

Doubly Disadvantaged - That was me in college!

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As a member of "the privalged poor" that attended a very elite post secondary school, this research and book is timeless for me and my children. Without a doubt, my review if I shared in it's entirety, would easily lay the groundwork for a Ph.D. proposal for a disortation. Suffice to say, an absolute must read and tell!

LIVED IT!

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As a higher education professor and administrator I learned a lot from this book. Highly recommended! The narrator does an excellent job.

Great book!

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Well researched and am written. A phenomenon that applies in South Africa as well.

Insightful

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The book was very informative. However, I wish the abbreviations and their definitions provided in the epilogue had been shared in the beginning so that listeners knew what the abbreviations meant.

Very informative

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