National effort to connect rural students with colleges expands to Texas

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Savannah Hunsucker didn’t have a college counselor to talk to at her rural high school outside Wichita, Kansas.

She didn’t know if her grades were good enough to get into the academically rigorous universities she was interested in. Few recruiters visited her school and she couldn’t travel to the universities she was interested in, so she leaned on Google searches to prepare her college applications.

“To have college [recruiters] come out and tell us about their school, even for schools that were local — that was pretty rare,” said Hunsucker, who is now a rising junior at Southern Methodist University.

Read more from The Texas Tribune.

Matt Zalaznick
Matt Zalaznick
Matt Zalaznick is the managing editor of University Business and a life-long journalist. Prior to writing for University Business, he worked in daily news all over the country, from the NYC suburbs to the Rocky Mountains, Silicon Valley and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He's also in a band.

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