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La Familia: Five Ways Institutions Can Support Hispanic Families  

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The wage gap persists, with Hispanic workers earning less than their White counterparts for similar work, hindering their ability to build wealth and provide for their families (Chapa & De Anda, 2017). Many Hispanic families grapple with the challenges associated with immigration status. Crosnoe, R., Cavanagh, S.

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How Many Colleges Should I Apply To?

Great College Advice

Get this: The share of students applying to seven or more colleges rose from 10 percent in 1995 to 36% in 2017. Yield rates (the percentage of students who accept an offer of admission) have declined to 33.7% in 2017 from 48% in 2017. There is still plenty of room for all sorts of students in American colleges.

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AANHPI in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

BestColleges

Table of Contents Asian Student Demographics AANHPI Undergraduate Student Enrollment AANHPI Graduate Student Enrollment Immediate College Enrollment First-Generation AANHPI Students Asian Faculty Demographics Asian/Asian American Educational Attainment Which Colleges Have the Most Asian Students? April 2017.

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Ivy League Profile: Dartmouth College

The Ivy Dean

The school offers over 40 academic departments and programs and has a 7:1 student to faculty ratio. Dartmouth allows undergraduate students to “explore the arts and sciences” before declaring a major and students can choose from over 2,100 courses in the liberal arts. and the pool of applicants was 20,034.

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Best HBCUs in Maryland

BestColleges

Maryland's legislators made the designation official to recognize the quality of Morgan State's programming and its service to Baltimore students. Although Alabama has the most HCBUs, North Carolina has the most Black undergraduate students enrolled in HCBUs. Which state has the most HBCUs? HBCUs are spread across 19 states.

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How Do Most People Pay for College?

BestColleges

Students can receive scholarships and grants from federal, state, and local governments or from their schools. Nearly 52% of full-time, first-time undergraduate students received federal grant funding. There are different types of student loans: federal loans borrowed by students, loans borrowed by parents, and private loans.

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Meeting Kip Thorne & an Oppenheimer Screening

Caltech Admissions

At the end of the first week of classes, our undergraduate student government (ASCIT) organized a fantastic event for students to try a bunch of food and hear from legendary Caltech physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who joined us that evening for a book signing and discussion about his role in the movie Oppenheimer !