Patricia A. Pérez

TL;DR: The authors examined the college choice process for Latina and Latino students in the greater Los Angeles basin through interviews and focus groups with 106 high school juniors and seniors and found that as primarily first-generation college students, the students in this sample relied heavily on siblings, peers, relatives, and high school contacts for purposes of postsecondary planning and for creating a college consideration and application set.

TL;DR: In the US, many states have established educational policies that provide financial aid support for small percentages of undocumented students to attend college at in-state tuition rates as discussed by the authors, where the largest concentration of immigrants live in California.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on understanding successful Latina/o college student retention at 4-year institutions and propose a model to consider how Latina students use different forms of capital (i.e.

TL;DR: Although most Latina/o transfer students declare intentions to transfer from a community college, few move on to 4-year colleges and universities as mentioned in this paper, and the authors provide an overview of the existing in...

TL;DR: In this article, the educational experiences of Latina/o undocumented college students attending a public Hispanic-Serving Institution were explored, and familial and institutional factors that promote educational opportunities were explored.