The Struggle to Be First: First-Gen Students May Be Torn Between College and Home
Currently, 17 percent of Berkeley undergrads are first-generation—a group that struggles to cope with the transition to college.
When Gabriela Ledezma was accepted at UC Berkeley as a transfer student from Rio Hondo Community College in Whittier a few years ago, she was delighted. Her family, not so much.
From the Spring 2015 Dropouts and Drop-ins issue of California.
