The $6 Solution.

The article discusses the admission of low-income students to elite U.S. colleges and universities. Topics include the impact of socioeconomic inequality on higher education in the U.S.; the phenomenon of undermatching, which involves low-income students attending less elite institutions than their abilities could have allowed; and problems with ranking colleges and universities. Research by scholars including Caroline M. Hoxby, Christopher Avery, and Michael Bastedo is noted.