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The Effect Of Prior High School Dual Enrollment Course Completion And Access Equity On First Generation College Attending Students, Douglas E. Stansberry

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Cumulative college grade point average, ratios of college credits earned to college credits attempted and persistence from one year in college to the next are impacted by the presence of dual enrollment credits earned by students while in high school. The groups analyzed in this study were first generation college attending minority and majority students who completed dual enrollment credits while in high school and attended the same university. The groups compared in this study were minority students who completed three to five dual enrollment credits while in high school ( n = 19), majority students who completed three to …