Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice

Explores what is it like for low-income students to feel the need to "pass" in their new college environments where the majority of their peers enjoy a high level of economic, social, and cultural capital

Presents ethnographic data to show disparities between low-income students and their privileged peers

Examines challenges low-income students face academically and personally as they navigate the foreign elite college culture