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Associate director of undergraduate admissions' Nae Evans Sims discusses effort of elite universities to reach out to students in rural areas

MEDIA | January 19, 2024
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

MIT, Yale, and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

NPRNae Evans Sims, associate director of undergraduate admissions in the university’s Division of Enrollment Management, discussed the effort by elite universities to reach out to students in rural areas—where students are less likely than their urban and suburban counterparts to go to college and, if they do, are more likely to drop out.