Why High-Achieving Hispanic Students Go to Hispanic U.: Report Sheds Light on Their Choice of Colleges

High-achieving Hispanic students often focus on location, cost, and campus atmosphere, not prestige, in selecting their colleges, according to a report due out today.
"The level of pragmatism these college students had in making decisions was impressive," said Deborah A. Santiago, the report's author and vice president for policy and research at Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit policy group.
The report, "Choosing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Closer Look at Latino Students' College Choices," is based on interviews with about 100 students and is not nationally representative. But it provides a window on why Hispanic undergraduates are heavily concentrated in the country's small cohort of Hispanic-serving institutions. [View Full Article - By Subscription - The Chronicle]