ABSTRACT
We initiate the idea of “getting in” with an examination of access to college in Chapter 2. In this chapter on access, we reveal the complicated and difficult pathways that many students of color might have to navigate in order to enroll in college, considering such issues as how primary and secondary schooling influences students’ chances of going to college, the role of families in college going, the process whereby a student decides if and where to go to college, and how a student negotiates a way to pay for college.
