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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Now our look at expanding access to the country's most prestigious universities. It's part of our focus on inequality in America.
Much attention has been paid lately to the issue of rising student debt and soaring college costs. But for some high-achieving students from lower-income families, the problem is even more acute. They rarely even apply to the nation's top schools.
Jeffrey Brown reports on efforts to change that.
MAN: In the way that Hobbes and Jefferson envisioned. Let's start with Hobbes.
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Eight-thirty a.m. on a summer morning on the campus of Princeton University, and these high school students are already engaged in a rigorous discourse about political philosophy.
STUDENT: They're inherently kind of predisposed to competition.
MAN: OK. We're getting that. Good, we're getting there.
STUDENT: They become enemies because you can't both have that one thing that you want.
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