When Aries and Seider cite research that says that lower-income students at elite universities undergo"significant effects on their sense of self, as well as on relations with friends and colleagues who still inhabit the ‘old' world" they mean
a. that lower-income students who are accepted into these schools are sophisticated and smart enough to fit into the established social order.
b. lower-income students must make difficult adjustments to fit in with the majority of students and faculty at these schools.
c. higher-income students, who have not been exposed to people from lower-income groups, feel a sense of superiority and discriminate against the lower-income students.
d. higher-income students and lower-income students suffer no cultural gaps since they were all accepted to these universities based on their outstanding academic skills.
B
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