Exceptionalism as a script of acceptance carries psychological costs for marginalized high-achieving students¶

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q2 i? Among Latinx undergraduates from undocumented backgrounds at an elite PWI, acceptance framed as deservingness through hard work came with psychological costs including isolation and self-doubt. → Rebecca Covarrubias 2024

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Rebecca Covarrubias 2024¶

Rebecca Covarrubias. (2024). On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09970-2

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The review reports, citing Anguiano & Gutiérrez Nájera (2015), interviews with Latinx undergraduates from undocumented backgrounds at an elite PWI for whom acceptance reflected 'deserving' status; 'their hard work and success came at a psychological cost like feelings of isolation and self-doubt.'

"Once there, however, their hard work and success came at a psychological cost like feelings of isolation and self-doubt, also known as racial opportunity costs (Chambers et al., 2014)."

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