On MMBay’s Mission:

College Undermatching, Class Diversity in Elite Spaces, and Cross-Class Bridging

Minds Matter Bay Area (MMBay) is an education nonprofit that connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world. Here is an excerpt from our white paper on the opportunity gap and affirmative action:

"Elite college institutions show a preference for students from wealthy families - a preference not justified by merit nor excellence when these wealthy admits are compared with their lower-income peers. And because top employers like to recruit from elite colleges, this wealth-based bias impacts the talent demographic of all elite careers - ones that shape commerce, policy, innovation, and care for generations of people. It reinforces a generational concentration of power and influence among those who already have power and influence."

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