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title: Top 100 colleges vow to enroll more low-income students
description: "NEWS:NPR Education: Schools will share strategies, lessons to expand access"
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# [Top 100 colleges vow to enroll more low-income students](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/top-colleges-vow-to-enroll-more-low-income-students)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 04/19/18

College access and affordability: It's a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder.

And yet, research has shown that low-income students [make up just 3 percent](https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/17/542575305/high-achieving-low-income-students-where-elite-colleges-are-falling-short) of the students that attend America's most selective colleges.

Universities are taking note, and have banded together under a new initiative to increase access to those students. Their goal? Enroll 50,000 additional low- and moderate-income students by 2025.

[Read the full article here.](https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/18/602260480/100-top-colleges-vow-to-enroll-more-low-income-students)

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