A poor student is a negligible student, or so it seems to be in the eyes of expensive colleges. Despite the work ethic, talents, and skills they may have, if they can’t pay up, they aren’t getting into that top of the line school. Why is that? There is a plethora of possible reasons, including poor students not having access to many resources that affluent students do,  poor students not being able to afford travel and board to actually attend these rich schools, and the fact that rich alumni give back more to the school. Schools like Harvard receive an astronomical amount in alumni donations. A quote from the text that I think sums up this point well was “the tiered U.S. educational system does not merely reflect class disparities; it actively reproduces them by rewarding the most affluent students with admission to prestigious colleges and by channeling the poorest students and students of color into two-year and unranked four-year schools and, even more insidiously, into exploitative for-profit colleges”.  Rich schools are not attempting to bring in students of different backgrounds, their main concern is ensuring that the richest students attend their school. Due to this, poor students are often forced to attend lesser schools despite the fact that their ability to learn may be top notch.