Institute for Higher Education Policy2019-08-022019-08-022011-06-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92668The report suggests that poverty still matters a great deal in terms of the types of institutions at which young adults are initially enrolling. In particular, they find that low-income students—between ages 18 and 26 and whose total household income is near or below the federal poverty level—are likely to be overrepresented at for-profit institutions and are likely to be underrepresented at public and private nonprofit four-year institutions.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationallow-income studentscollege enrollmentselective admissionReporthttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/portraits-low-income_young_adults_attendance_brief_final_june_2011.pdf