November heralds another time-sensitive campaign for students in North Carolina, where dozens of colleges waive application fees for one week in an effort to attract first-generation applicants and students who may not have considered college otherwise.
Additional requirements, he suggests, may deter low-income, first-generation applicants from applying to a particular college.
"So many parts of the process are already much more difficult for first-generation applicants," she says.
The study showed, among other findings, that minority students, women, first-generation applicants, Pell Grant recipients, and students with learning disabilities were all more likely to be non-submitters (that is, to apply without submitting test scores).
History major Deanna Day, AB'06, wrote that for her, a "first-generation applicant from a rural school," Chicago was nevertheless an option.
Students volunteered and helped first-generation college applicants with their scholarship applications.
Unfortunately, many first-generation college applicants don't have parental support to help guide them through the application process.
Do you have admissions advice for first-generation college applicants?
Here are a few additional tips for first-generation college applicants: The National Center for Education Statistics defines first-generation students as "undergraduates whose parents never enrolled in postsecondary education".
The first is completing "first generation" reforms.
Admissions offices began to assess merit in terms of "challenges that the applicant has faced," for example, and to take account of "special circumstances such as disabilities, low family income, first generation to attend college".
