Most students want to go to college after high school, and most of the students who want to go to college want to go to a good college or university. In order to get into these good schools, most students have to take the SAT. To prepare for this test, students can either study independently, use SAT prep books, or take an SAT prep course. However, the best of these prep courses are expensive. For example, "Princeton Review claims that a student can get a 1,500+ on the SAT for a price of $2,000." For a lot of low-income families, this means that they most likely cannot afford to pay for these classes and will be at a disadvantage when it comes to taking the SAT. 

Since low-income students do not have the resources to pay for SAT prep courses, a lot of them do not even take the SAT or the ACT: "For children from the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution, only about a quarter of them take an SAT or ACT test." This shows that a lot of low-income students want to go to college, but they try to pick colleges that they do not need to take the SAT, because registering for the test also costs money. Even if they do take the SAT, the data shows that they will not do as well as their wealthy peers: "The average score for kids with a family income of $20,000 or less is 1,326, according to 2013 data, rising to 1,569 in  families with an income of $100,000 to $120,000." This shows the root of the problem. If lower-income students had access to prep courses, they might be able to increases their scores, do better on the test, and get into their dream school.

How can this problem be solved? It can be solved by having local SAT prep organizations partner with libraries to cover the costs of the SAT prep materials, such as books or computer software, and offer weekly classes for students where they do either problems in the books or on the software, or get help from the people at the SAT prep organization. In order to make this possible, it is most likely that funding for libraries in these communities would need to be increased, or money would need to be set aside for these classes.