September 14, 2007
Why Hispanic Students Choose Hispanic Colleges
Apparently not all teenagers are the cachet-seeking consumers of popular imagination. A new study from Excelencia in Education found that in choosing a college, high-achieving Hispanic students often value location, cost, and campus atmosphere more than prestige.
Understanding that mentality is a step toward figuring out why almost half of the country's Hispanic students attend the small fraction of colleges designated as Hispanic-serving institutions.
Those colleges tend to be
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