How a Billionaire Banker Is Helping Elite US Colleges Recruit New Talent

Banker’s $20 million push is aimed at underserved areas, kids
Colleges are rethinking admissions after Supreme Court ruling

Undergraduate admissions from elite colleges are visting rural colleges through the Stars College Network Tristar College Tour.Photographer: Juan Diego Reyes/Bloomberg

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By Janet Lorin

November 21, 2023 at 11:30 AM UTC

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Byron Trott says the small Missouri town where he grew up wasn’t the kind of place that got regular visits from admissions officers at Yale, MIT or his own alma mater, the University of Chicago.

Now the billionaire banker, who rose to the top levels of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. before founding his own firm, is backing an effort to change that.