As more rural students apply to college, attention turns to helping them succeed there

AMHERST, Mass. — Crowding around a fire pit outside the Amherst College campus center, earnest-looking high school seniors offered fire-building suggestions as intently as if they were taking a final exam. “This is our test of how rural you are, is how good you are at making a fire,” the college’s assistant dean of admissions, […] The post As more rural students apply to college, attention turns to helping them succeed there appeared first on The Hechinger Report.