NO federal law prohibits illegal immigrants from attending college in the United States, or requires them to disclose their situation. Most colleges don’t even check immigration status when students apply for financial aid — only 31 percent, according to a survey last year by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Still, illegal students face numerous barriers to higher education. About 65,000 graduated from American high schools last year, but only 5 percent went on to college, according to Roberto G. Gonzales, a professor at the University of Washington and author of a College Board report last year on the plight of minors brought in illegally by their parents and raised here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03alienbx-t.html
[posted by Sonia Vissoni]
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