Sentences with phrase «privileged socioeconomic backgrounds»

Research has shown that children from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds are better prepared for achievement when they enter school than children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Many from modest or minority socioeconomic backgrounds attend less prestigious colleges than their more privileged counterparts.

If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard and Stanford will try hard to find talented high school students from poor families in a push to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus and to counter the growing concern that highly selective colleges cater mainly to students from privileged backgrounds.