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Feb 19, 2017
2:46:24pm

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What apartments did you live in?

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IGlowInTheDark

Previous username: chachaching
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Brookings: "Rock-bottom social mobility score surprises BYU community"

Gustav

2/19/17 2:30pm

This actually doesn't surprise me. My anecdotal evidence at BYU told me I came

Lieutenant America

2/19/17 2:39pm

What apartments did you live in?

2/19/17 2:46pm

Something they neglect to mention

Kid_A

2/19/17 2:48pm

Or the assumption that "help is a phone call away"

2/19/17 2:51pm

No other way to put it...that's why ByU-I exists.

2/19/17 2:50pm

lol

southernfriedcougar

2/19/17 3:31pm

After about 5 min of trying to find a tactful way of phrasing it...

2/19/17 3:50pm

If less than 2% of students come from the bottom 20% in incomes

donnerstag

2/19/17 2:59pm

it goes back to the 3 things to do to avoid poverty:

ds7

2/19/17 3:37pm

I wonder what percent of active LDS are in the bottom 20%? One thing that may impact our score is that we do such a

HarlemCoug

2/19/17 3:40pm

But don't the poor join the church in greater numbers?

Ulysses14

2/19/17 4:15pm

I think nearly all who apply to BYU are active LDS.

HarlemCoug

2/19/17 4:50pm

who can get above a 29 on the ACT...

ds7

2/19/17 4:52pm

Yes, but their children, who would often be the ones applying to BYU, are often

colton

2/19/17 10:20pm

so, bascally, BYU pulls from a pool of people who make good life choices...

ds7

2/19/17 3:11pm

Say what?

TNT

2/19/17 3:13pm

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2/19/17 3:29pm

I'd be interested to see the results across the CES colleges

ColoSpgs

2/19/17 3:25pm

Seems accurate to me. I didn't meet many students that were raised in abject

2/19/17 3:28pm

Almost seems like a made up category for ranking schools

byu1

2/19/17 3:43pm

Better headline, 'BYU among top 10 in college success, but could broaden pool'

VirginiaYewt

2/19/17 3:46pm

My guess is the HC keeps our access rate lower than other schools

Ulysses14

2/19/17 4:13pm

yep...LDS lifestyle

ds7

2/19/17 4:30pm

Excellent point

KingDave

2/19/17 4:34pm

Almost the entire application pool is LDS

donnerstag

2/19/17 5:06pm

A decent portion of the LDS population is not HC ready.

Ulysses14

2/19/17 5:23pm

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