Stanford has joined about a dozen highly selective colleges and universities to offer digital college courses in an effort to reach high-school students in economically disadvantaged communities
. Efforts have included working with college-prep programs and low-income high schools across the country.
The Education Equity Lab targets minority students and schools where at least 40% of students are from low-income families. The goal is to address under-matching, a term in college admissions to describe well-qualified disadvantaged students who choose less-challenging institutions or decide not to attend college at all.
Janet Perez said her experience with the Stanford computer-science course gave her the confidence to consider a career in the field.Janet Perez, an 11th-grader at All City Leadership Secondary School in Brooklyn, N.Y., said her performance in the Stanford computer-science course has given her the confidence to consider pursuing a career in the field. She was initially considering prelaw as her major, but now is looking for a school that has strong prelaw and computer-science programs.
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