What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? WHEN ANA BARROS first stepped into Harvard Yard as a freshman, she felt so out of place she might as well have had the words “low income” written on her forehead. A girl from Newark doesn’t belong in a place like Harvard, she thought, as she marveled at how green the elms were, how quaint the cobblestone streets.

Back home, where her family lives in a modest house bought from Habitat for Humanity, there wasn’t always money for groceries, and the world seemed gray, sirens blaring at all hours. Her parents, who immigrated to the New York area from Colombia before she was born, spoke Spanish at home. It was at school that Barros learned English. A petite 5- foot- 2 with high cheekbones and a head of model- worthy hair, Barros found out in an e- mail that she’d been accepted to Harvard — a full scholarship would give her the means to attend. She opted for a single her freshman year, because she felt self- conscious about sharing a room with someone from a more privileged background. During her freshman and sophomore years, Barros hesitated to speak in class because she often mispronounced words — she knew what they meant from her own reading, but she hadn’t said many aloud before, and if she had, there had been no one to correct her. Friends paired off quickly.

If someone said let’s go to the Square for dinner and see a movie, you’d move on,” she says. Barros quickly became close with two other low- income students with whom she seemed to have more in common. She couldn’t relate to her peers who talked about buying $2. In a recent sociology class, Barros’s instructor asked students to state their social class to spark discussion. Although she’d become accustomed to sharing her story with faculty, Barros passed. It made her uncomfortable.

But in 2. 00. 4, in the hopes of diversifying its student body and giving low- income, high- achieving students a chance at an Ivy League education, Harvard announced a game- changing financial aid campaign: If a student could get in, the school would pick up the tab. The number of students awarded a Pell Grant — financial aid of as much as $5,7. At Harvard, where tuition, room, and board is estimated at $5. Pell is a very small part of a student’s financial aid package.

Last year, 1. 9. 3 percent of eligible Harvard students were awarded a Pell, an 8. At Brown University, 1. Pell, and at Yale, 1. But receiving a full scholarship to an Ivy League school, while a transformative experience for the nation’s poorest students, is only the first hurdle. Once on campus, students report feelings of loneliness, alienation, and plummeting self- confidence.

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Having grant money for tuition and fees and holding down jobs, too, as virtually all of them do, doesn’t translate to having the pocket money to keep up with free- spending peers. And some disadvantaged students feel they don’t have a right to complain to peers or administrators about anything at all; they don’t want to be perceived as ungrateful. White grew up working class in Jamaica Plain and graduated as valedictorian (he was one of the only white kids in his senior class) from New Mission High School in Hyde Park; his father is an MBTA bus driver.

From the start, the Harvard campus didn’t seem built for a kid from a background like his, he says. Classmates came in freshman year having started businesses or nonprofits (usually with their parents’ resources, he says) that could make even a top student wonder if he belonged.

White appreciates, for example, that Harvard gives low- income students free tickets to the freshman formal, but they have to pick up the tickets in a different line from everyone else. At times, White wondered if he’d made the right choice going to Harvard, even if he saw his matriculation, like many low- income students do, as his one shot at leaving his family’s financial struggles behind for good. Stephen Lassonde, dean of student life at Harvard College, says first- generation students have it particularly tough because they’re wrestling with their identities, like all students, while simultaneously trying to transcend their socioeconomic backgrounds. Today, White, a sociology major, is vice president of Harvard’s First Generation Student Union, an advocacy and support network seeking to create positive institutional change for students whose parents never attended a four- year- college; Barros is the president.

To hear them talk about it, the union has become a haven for Harvard’s poorest students, even if “first generation” doesn’t always mean poor. Low- income kids claimed the term when they realized how much easier it was to admit they were struggling partly because they were the first in their family to go to college, and not simply because they were poor, says Dan Lobo, who founded the union in 2. Raised by Cape Verdean immigrant parents in Lynn — his dad cooks and his mom waits tables at hotels near Logan — Lobo spent a few tough years “trying to transition to Harvard.” After having dinner with two classmates in similar circumstances who also felt like an “invisible minority” on campus and struggled to make friends and keep up academically, Lobo decided to “come out” as a low- income, first- generation student and organized the First Generation Student Union. Urging others to talk more openly about how their background influenced their college experience, he sought to create a community that could advocate for change on campus. Advertisement. As at Harvard, low- income students at Yale and Brown have suggested administrators could do more to help them develop a sense of belonging. And they, too, have been organizing — Undergraduate First Generation Low Income Partnership sprang up in 2. Yale. At Brown, three students, including a Mexican- American kid from California named Manuel Contreras, started 1vy.

G, the Inter- Ivy, First Generation College Student Network, in January 2. Dvd The Dead Lands (2015) Downloads Online more. Contreras’s group organized a three- day conference this February that brought together students and administrators from other schools to share information and learn from one another. Gabriel (2015) Download Ipod on this page. If the infrastructure at an Ivy League school assumes everyone comes from a certain socioeconomic background, as some first- generation students say, then change needs to come at an institutional level. Dining halls at some schools, for example, close for spring break, though some students can’t afford to leave campus. While tuition, room, and board may be covered.

Rakesh Khurana, dean of Harvard College, grew up in Queens as the son of a teacher in the Bronx. In December, Harvard appointed two first- generation liaisons — one in the office of financial aid, the other in the office of career services — to help ease the transition for students.

In January, Jason Munster, a first- generation low- income graduate student in environmental sciences and engineering from Maine, was named Harvard College’s first “first- generation tutor.” If you’re poor and struggling, Munster is the person you can go to for help. With an undergraduate degree from Harvard, Munster is also the campus liaison for the Harvard First Generation Alumni Network, founded around the same time as the First Generation Student Union. Still, students complain that Harvard worries too much about singling out first- generation students — the administration has been hesitant, for example, to offer them a specialized “bridge” program in the summer before their freshman year. Khurana waves the accusation off, saying that as a college Harvard is still figuring out how best to help. Can we create relationships earlier in their experience rather than later? Can we streamline certain forms of financial aid? It’s our goal to close this gap as quickly as possible.”ON A SUNDAY in mid- January, 1.

Alejandro Claudio has just packed up his duffel bag at his family’s first- floor apartment in a run- down triple- decker on Waldo Street in Providence’s West End.