Tell me if any of these findings are true.
Enrollment in the 468 best-funded and most selective four-year institutions is 75 percent white, the Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce
reports. Enrollment at the 3,250 lowest-funded community colleges and four-year universities is 37 percent black and Hispanic.
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- Nearly a third of black and Hispanic students with high school grade-point averages of 3.5 or better end up at community colleges, compared to 22 percent of white students with the same grades, the Georgetown research found.
- Seventy-two percent of black students go into debt to pay for their educations, compared to 56 percent of white students, the Education Department reports.
- Nearly 72 percent of white students finish a four-year degree within six years, compared to 56 percent of Hispanic and 46 percent of black students, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says.
- Thirty-three percent of white Americans 25 and older have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 19 percent of blacks and 16 percent of Hispanics, according to the Education Department.