Understanding Promise: Impact of State Support on Latino High School Student Habitus

ABSTRACT

This study examined the role of a state need-based financial aid policy in Latina/o high school students’ meaning making of postsecondary access. Utilizing narrative research, the analytical focus on the meaning making uncovered patterns of individual agency in the journeys of eight Latina/o high school students who were recent enrollees in the state need-based financial aid program.

KEYWORDS:

• College aspirations and expectations
• need-based financial aid policy
• academic capital formation
• habitus
• narrative research

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.