Instead, it’s evident through the article that things have not changed and there is a stable pattern of “persistent overrepresentation of middle-class students” (pg 856). There was a larger proportion of student from the first two classes rather the bottom ones. From the study, it was found out that some of the reasons for such unequal participation in higher education lies in the “geographical constraints” (pg861). While most of the middle-class students had access to universities far away from home, working, class children had to think of transportation costs which restricted the amount of choices they had for universities. Other issues included, fitting in as working class students stressed out that they won’t fit in and they preferred to attend a lower standard university where they felt safe, being surrounded from people like them, rather than the established old universities filled with higher class children. Additionally the hours that the working class population had to work while attending university made it impossible for those students to achieve good grades that would help them get into good
Instead, it’s evident through the article that things have not changed and there is a stable pattern of “persistent overrepresentation of middle-class students” (pg 856). There was a larger proportion of student from the first two classes rather the bottom ones. From the study, it was found out that some of the reasons for such unequal participation in higher education lies in the “geographical constraints” (pg861). While most of the middle-class students had access to universities far away from home, working, class children had to think of transportation costs which restricted the amount of choices they had for universities. Other issues included, fitting in as working class students stressed out that they won’t fit in and they preferred to attend a lower standard university where they felt safe, being surrounded from people like them, rather than the established old universities filled with higher class children. Additionally the hours that the working class population had to work while attending university made it impossible for those students to achieve good grades that would help them get into good