When she began to check out colleges as a high school student, Jacqueline Quintero noticed something many seemed to have in common.
“I don’t like saying it, but they all looked so white,” said Quintero, whose parents came to the United States from Mexico. “I just didn’t feel a sense of belonging.”
Then she went to a reception for admitted students at Dominican University, near where she grew up in the west Chicago suburbs. Among the things that made her decide almost immediately to go there: Information was provided to families in English and Spanish.
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