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-6 posts tagged "low-income students"
Ryan Peters | Wednesday, March 31, 2021
The University announced Friday it admitted 1,771 students to the class of 2025 during the regular decision process. With 1,673 students admitted during the restrictive early action (REA) process in December, the University admitted a total of 3,446 students out of 23,639 applicants for a record-low acceptance rate of 14.6%. Of the 1,712 deferred students
Theresa Olohan | Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Notre Dame’s Office of Student Enrichment seeks to address inequalities on campus with its first annual First Generation and Low Income Student Week. Assistant director of student enrichment Robyn Centilli said the week is intended to raise awareness of first-generation and low-income students’ circumstances, hopefully promoting campus dialogue about the unique challenges these students often
Serena Zacharias | Friday, April 26, 2019
While the recent college admissions scandal — permeating national news and implicating many well-known celebrities — has sparked outrage among Americans, it has also highlighted unfair advantages wealthy students gained in the college admissions process, especially to highly ranked universities. In recent years, many colleges and universities have committed to enrolling more low-income students by increasing the number of Pell
Gina Twardosz and Jordan Cockrum | Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Editor’s note: This is the final part in a series exploring the experiences of low socioeconomic students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. The financial burden of a private school education is something students often spend many hours thinking about, and the students at Saint Mary’s are no different. Therese Pingel said she eagerly began
Megan Valley | Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Editor’s note: This is the second part in a series exploring the experiences of low socioeconomic students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. When sophomore Eric Kim was ranking colleges for his QuestBridge application, he added Notre Dame because he applied to “any school that had a business program.” It wasn’t until after he was
Fr. Joe Corpora | Thursday, November 20, 2014
It all began with a phone call in my office from the Business Manager of Alliance for Catholic Education. She asked me, “Do you know such and such a student?” I told her I did not. She said, “This student has a work study job in ACE and he asked me to write a letter