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Getting In: College Choice for Pacific Islander High School Football Players. In SSGM Discussion Paper 2017/7

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Pacific Islander (PI) communities are underrepresented in US higher education, and hold bachelor's degrees at rates lower than the national rate (US Census 2012). Empowering Pacific Island Communities (EPIC and Asian Americans Advancing Justice 2014) reported that Guamanians (13%), Samoans (11%), Tongas (11%), Fijians (10%), and Micronesians (4%) all hold bachelor's degrees at less than half the rate of the national population of the United States (285).
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2017
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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Australian National University (ANU)
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