2 resultsfor “why do rural students not enroll in college”
College, during a visit for accepted applicants still weighing their enrollment decisions.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3500x2333+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9a%2Fed%2F00e8074145188cb085d8b064ce16%2Fhe-rural-enrolled-2.JPG) Students and prospective students from rural
rural Smithfield, North Carolina. She [told the Los Angeles Times in 2016](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-republicans-harmeet-dhillon-20160719-snap-story.html) she “was not popular at all”: “I had two long braids and a funny name and my mother didn