Deny that access to educational opportunities are equal. Being from a lower socio-economic strata, without home ready access to word processing technology (in a world increasingly dependent upon computing competence), and being a pioneer (in terms of being a first generation college student) makes higher education a slippery slope for many minority students that have the qualities described above. Texas did a study of their own students and found minority students (black students from urban places, Hispanic students from southern Texas, and white kids from poor parts if western Texas) dropped out at over an 80% clip. They used scaffolding environments, deomgraphic-specific scholarships, etc., To help these students and found that by offering the same type of support that more affluent students get at home, these minority students stayed in school more and performed in like manner as their counterparts across the board, in terms of grades. There was a normal distribution of grades. (See NY Times "Who Gets to Graduate?"). Helping less supported communities succeed can be done and it is being done through the CES system. BYU is the flagship school, which has been academically exclusive as a major academic school, whereas BYU-I, BYU-HAWAI'I, AND LDSBC are very inclsive. The latter three have almost a 99% acceptance rate.