To recruit rural students, USC joins STARS College Network
USC, Caltech, Yale, Vanderbilt and a dozen other leading institutions are reaching out to young people in small towns.
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USC, Caltech, Yale, Vanderbilt and a dozen other leading institutions are reaching out to young people in small towns.
Sixteen schools have partnered to form the STARS College Network, a new effort to help students from small-town and rural backgrounds enroll in and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice.
MIT Dean Stuart Schmill speaks about MIT Admissions’ participation in the STARS College Network and its goal of helping rural students better understand their options for going to college.
Washington University in St. Louis has teamed up with 15 of the nation’s leading public and private higher education institutions to launch STARS College Network (Small-Town And Rural Students), a new effort to help students from small-town and rural America enroll in, succeed at and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice.
Investment banker Byron Trott wants more students from rural America and small towns to attend top-tier colleges so he's donating millions to help.