Orbe (2004) conducted focus group and individual interviews with a total of 71 self-identified first-generation college students (fgc) and eight fgc graduates across six different colleges and universities in three different midwestern states in the united states. he found that

  Conclusions are that the FGC tend to present lower performance in their early college years or even dropping, linking that to assumed laboral responsabilities, poor or absent parent stimulation, compromised sense of belonging to college community and deficitary grupal engagement for developing their studies, plus, FGC status seems to be important only to college members who have had the same life background, demonstrating that there is little preocupation wheter they are academically well or not, staying or quitting college/university, revealing some sense, to be taken as precaution, that their private limitations or lack of support is not seen as "anyone´s problem".

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