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"At-Risk" Students
	Fact 1

  Students of Color
  Students of All Income...
  First-Generation Students
  "At-Risk" Students
  Non-Traditional Students

Private and public institutions enroll comparable numbers of students with at-risk characteristics; private institutions, however, do a better job of helping these students attain their degrees.

Fact 1 - "At-Risk" Students
Private and public institutions enroll comparable numbers of students with at-risk characteristics (19 percent vs. 14 percent). Private institutions, however, do a better job of helping these students attain their degrees. In fact, students with multiple risk factors* (two or more) graduate from private institutions at more than twice the rate of their peers at public institutions.

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*Risk factors include: financial independence, delayed college enrollment, working full-time, attending school part-time, having dependents, being a single parent, having no high school diploma.

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