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First-generation college students

First-generation college students navigate institutions built by and for people whose parents attended college, navigating unspoken codes, financial precarity, and the isolation of being the first in their family to pursue higher education. Their presence in these spaces reveals how much of 'merit' is actually inheritance.

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