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More Latino students are going away to college

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 57, Clicks: 0) View Story

Many find it difficult to break from cultural traditions, but they and their families can see benefits.

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Since 1975, the share of Latino freshmen at four-year colleges who choose schools more than 50 miles from home has risen to nearly 59% from about 46%, and the share who attend such colleges within 10 miles of home dropped to 15% from 30%, according to a study by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. At the same time, the proportion of white freshmen who went away to school stayed unchanged, at about 66%.

Latino Trends -- http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/briefs/brief-20081015-LatinoTrends.pdf

'Portrait of Latino Freshmen -- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/16/latino

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