2003 Analysis Dropout Survey 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The report’s findings came from an analysis of three different national surveys that followed almost 50,000 students from high school onward. Nearly 36 percent of undergraduates who began college in 2003-04 were students whose parents had never attended college at all. That figure reflects dropout rates, too.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers.
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