For low-income applicants to U.S. colleges, April remains the cruelest month. By early April, almost all admission decisions are known. Colleges shift from screening applications to wooing admitted students. Affluent students can attend â??pre-froshâ? events and enjoy being courted.
Most low-income applicants, however, spend April trying to figure out whether they can afford to pursue their dreams.
(Nina W. Marks is president of Collegiate Directions Inc., a nonprofit that works with low-income, first-generation-to-college students from public schools. This column first appeared in the Washington Post.)