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Report Documents Troubling Statistics for Low-Income Students Applying to Nation’s Top Colleges

Unlike their more affluent peers, nearly one-in-four low-income students apply to college without the support of a parent or counselor; nearly half never visited their top choice school  
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UNC-Chapel Hill Wins $1 Million Cooke Prize

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Report Finds Flagship Universities Becoming Instruments of Social...

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Cooke Foundation Awards $855,000 in Grants to Benefit Low-Income Rural Students

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded $855,000 to academic enrichment programs serving low-income rural students in elementary and secondary schools in North Carolina, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi and Virgin...

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Cooke Foundation Awards 55 Top Community College Students...

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BEAM Receives $1 Million Cooke Foundation Talent Development...

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Cooke Foundation Awards $225,000 in Good Neighbor Grants

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