U.S. Department of EducationNational Center for Education Statistics2018-06-222018-06-221997-10-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83696The purpose of this report is twofold. First, it aims to understand the critical junctures in the pipeline to college enrollment where at-risk high school graduates leave at substantially higher rates than their counterparts not at risk. Second, it identifies factors that contribute to at-risk students’ successful navigation of the pipeline to college enrollmentapplication/pdfen-USCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0Minority studentsaccess to higher educationUniversities and colleges--AdmissionDropouts--PreventionConfronting the Odds: Students At Risk and the Pipeline to Higher EducationReporthttps://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98094.pdf