June 6, 2003

Unknown Factor Hampers Minority Students' Performance in College, Study Finds

Hispanic and African-American students are less likely to succeed in college than white students who earned the same grade-point averages in high school, according to a study by ACT Inc.

To a lesser degree, those minority students are also less likely to succeed -- that is, to attain a GPA of at least 2.5 in their freshman year -- than white students with the same composite scores on ACT's standardized college-admissions tests.

The study suggests that the reasons for

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