The gap between public high schoolers in majority Black senior classes who fill out a form for college financial aid for the State of Michigan and those seniors who are not in majority Black classes jumped this spring, a new study shows.
Researchers at the University of Michigan and the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) found that 42.6% of students in majority Black senior classes applied for the Michigan Tuition Incentive Program this spring, a drop from a year earlier, compared with 51.6% of students ihere Black seniors are not a majority. That 9% gap is an increase of 8.2% from the previous year.
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