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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Morales ended up enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where she finished in December with a degree in political science. They also drive a frenzy elsewhere of practice tests, tutoring and other strategies to gain advantage in the competition for admission that’s largely absent from the public high schools here.