Success of Minority Students

Minority Students and College Success

It has been a popular misconception that minority students especially the African-American and Hispanics have no interest in pursuing a college degree nor are they likely to be successful in it Asian-Americans , although still considered as a minority seem to be categorized in terms of college success in the same level as whites because they have consistently been high achievers in school Statistics in the high school level show that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to drop out of high school , perform very poorly

and keep repeating the year until they just leave school moreover , there is this numbers game in the how minority students perform in standardized tests in math , science and reading which had for the longest time been averse to the minority students . The assumption is that fewer minority students finish high school hence fewer of them end up pursuing a college degree . As we all know college education in the country is very expensive and even if whites and Asian-Americans are able to finish high school not everyone of them go to college , most have to support themselves and end up working and taking classes at night . A recent study by the American Council of Education (2006 ) have surveyed the number of minority students in college and compared it to the enrollment rates of whites and Asian-Americans . Their findings have reported that 18 .6 percent of African-Americans and 22 .7 percent of Hispanics enrolled in college with degrees in science , technology and mathematics which is almost equal to the enrollment rates of white students (18 ) and Asian-Americans (26 .4 ) in the same college degrees The study also found that at their third year of college , the enrollment rate for African-Americans and Hispanics was 56 percent to the 57 percent of whites and Asian-Americans . The difference however is that there are less minority students who complete their degrees in the prescribed four years because of financial difficulties , juggling working more hours and studying full time , which consequently led to fewer earned credits than their white and Asian-American counterparts This report have dispelled the popular notion that minority students does not have the ambition and drive to finish college , and I would like to be part of those who will prove this stereotype to be wrong . I am determined to pursue college and work hard to finish it within the prescribed years of study and if push comes to shove , I would rather stay on and complete it even if it will take me six years or more than just quit . I believe in education and having a degree opens more doors for me than anything I could think of , not wealth , popularity or power .Reference

Anderson , L Dongbin , K (2006 . Increasing the Success of Minority Students in Science and

Technology . Washington D .C : American Council of Education Publication

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