On elite college campuses, Asian Americans currently make up roughly a fifth of student bodies, despite representing only about 6percentt of the general U.S. population.
Roughly a third of all students are the first in their family to attend college, Mr. Minor said.
So it is little surprise that given the breadth of instruction — which covers everything from identifying every piece of ordnance in global production to disabling roadside bombs to clearing aircraft crash scenes of the ordnance still strapped to the crippled plane — roughly a third of the students fail.
More than 6.7 million, or roughly a third, of all students enrolled in postsecondary education took an online course for credit in fall 2011, according to the 2012 iteration of the Babson Survey Research Group's annual Survey of Online Learning.
At Amherst College in Massachusetts, about 500 students -- roughly a third of the student body -- stood listening to speeches at a similar rally.
In other words, roughly a third of ex-students must make payments that lower the loan balance by at least a dollar in a given year.
(For-profit colleges, which disproportionately serve low-income students, account for roughly a tenth of undergraduates, and more than a third of student-loan defaults).
15See Heckman and Lafontaine (2007) for evidence that roughly a fourth of US students fail to complete high school.
The new study, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, took place in a state with one of the worst teen tobacco problems, West Virginia, where roughly a third of all high school students are smokers.
In English, roughly a third of the Black and Latino students are proficient readers, compared to 64% of the White and Asian students.
He expelled three of the protest leaders, which resulted in an even larger demonstration, involving roughly a third of the college's 1,500 students, and subsequently a two-week boycott of classes honored by 90 percent of the student body.
