 on campus, and universities are trying to find ways to address it. “I don’t think they (colleges) have much of a choice” but to address it, said Lynn Blue, vice provost and dean of academic services and information technology at Grand Valley State University.
At Grand Valley, 36 percent of students are low-income. Admissions officers visit hundreds of schools a year, many in low-income and rural areas, tailoring their message to the audience.
“If it’s a low-income school, we’re going to talk about affordability,” Blue said. “They don’t want to know about the new library. They want to know how they could afford four years of college.
“It’s a social justice issue,” Blue said. “These are capable individuals who can contribute to society. If we’re not including those voices, we are losing so much. Ignoring them would be like throwing talent in the landfill.”
‘What’s our strategy?’
U-M is a major research university, so it’s not surprising that it has conducted research on the challenge of attracting more low-income students.
“If you fill out the application and are admitted, the percentage of low-income kids who graduate (from Michigan) is roughly the same as high-income kids,” said Al Franzblau, vice provost for business and academic affairs at U-M. “The big drop-off is in the applications submitted. We know there are lots of kids who come from, say, not the best high schools, who score in the range of Michigan, and we’re not seeing a lot of those applications. The trick is, how do you get those kids to apply?”
Other U-M research, still underway, found that there are, at the average Michigan high school, just three low-income students who qualify academically for U-M.
Even for a college as rich as the University of Michigan, it’s difficult to justify spending money to send admissions counselors to schools to try to find those three students, U-M officials say. “What’s our strategy?” Franzblau said. “How do we be efficient? We don’t have an infinite pool of dollars. We’re trying to think of what we can do to efficiently and effectively reach this audience.”
Low-income students, particularly those whose parents never attended college, often don’t realize that attending U-M can be as cheap as attending the local community college. “That message isn’t out there,” Franzblau said.
Because of the fear of college sticker prices, students from low-income families tend to under-reach, applying for less selective schools than they are qualified to attend.
“We believe there are high-achieving, low-income kids in Michigan,” Franzblau said. “We do the best we can to find qualified students to bring in.”
So why did Kalli, with her high ACT and GPA and a boatload of college credits not gain admission?
The university’s admissions office knows a student’s family’s income range and whether the student’s parents attended college through questions on the Common Application, which U-M and many other schools around the country use. The school gives an edge in admissions decisions to students from low-income families and whose parents did not attend college, called "first generation students" in college parlance. “We consider those as positive factors in the holistic review for admission to U-M,” said U-M spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald.
Even with the university trying to increase income diversity, and with the school accepting about half of Michigan-resident applicants each year, Kalli was wait-listed. An email from a U-M admissions officer to Kalli, shared with Bridge by the Hooper family, said Kalli “has the capability to be a successful student at the University of Michigan,” but that “it was just so competitive this year that we did not have space to admit all the academically excellent students that applied.”
Continuing the cycle
Income diversity is creeping upward at U-M. The percentage of incoming freshmen from Michigan families earning less than $50,000 increased from 9 percent to 13 percent in the past decade.
Kalli likely won’t be going there. Michigan has taken very few aspiring Wolverines off their wait lists in recent years.
Kalli turned in a deposit to enroll at Michigan Tech, where she hopes to study business. She’s awaiting word on whether she’ll get an offer from U-M off the school’s wait list.
She says she’s fine either way. But she worries that other low-income, high-achieving students don’t have the options she had.
“If you keep low-income kids out of the best colleges,” Kalli said, “you’re just continuing the cycle of the wealthy kids going to the best schools and getting the best opportunities.”
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Military researchers have been examining the capability of bombers jets to dump payloads in wind tunnel since the 1960s.
Prototype aircraft in a wind tunnel.
Chinese researchers claim to have created the most sophisticated method in the world for testing an aircraft's capacity to discharge a weapon or tiny spacecraft at very high speeds.
The technique has enabled scientists to test a hypersonic bomber prototype in the wind tunnel.
The research team claimed to have built a hypersonic captive trajectory system (CTS) that uses two robotic arms to hold and tilt a prototype aircraft and its cargo, allowing them to pitch, rotate, and roll in nearly all directions, reported South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Friday.
"During an experiment in a one-meter-wide (3.3 feet) wind tunnel, the upgraded device allowed the Chinese researchers to simulate offloading cargo at Mach 6 – six times the speed of sound – and obtain data with unprecedented detail and accuracy," according to a study cited by SCMP that appeared in the Chinese journal Acta Aerodynamica Sinica on Monday.
New hypersonic CTS
The first CTS capable of operating in a hypersonic wind tunnel against intense, rapid shock waves was created by Lin Jinzhou's team in 2017. Now again, his team from China's Aerodynamics Research and Development Center