first-generation students

The Chloe Jensen Column: College applications and low-income students

BY CHLOE JENSEN '20 

Elite colleges are fundamentally not designed for low-income students, which makes the application process unnavigable without help from an elite college attendee

The experience for first-generation students at Mount Holyoke College needs to be a priority

BY CHLOE JENSEN '20

“Mount Holyoke prides itself on diversity and really needs to do a better job being accessible to first-generation and low-income students,” said Andrea Corbett ’20, a first-generation college student from the Bronx in New York.  For students who are the first to attend college in their family, the experience of confronting classism is unique.