Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin will get funds to visit more students in rural communities and small towns.
Savannah Hunsucker didn’t have a college counselor to talk to at her rural high school outside Wichita , Kan . She didn’t know if her grades were good enough to get into the academically rigorous universities she was interested in. Few recruiters visited her school and she couldn’t travel to the universities she was eyeing, so she leaned on Google searches to prepare her college applications.
was created, representatives from 16 colleges in the network have visited classrooms at 1,100 small-town high schools. to cover the cost of travel and housing so students from rural regions can visit their campuses for free. “There’s this huge information gap that students get left out of when colleges and universities don’t visit them,” said
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