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This spring the University of Maryland, Baltimore County celebrated the 30th anniversary of one of its hallmarks: the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.

Often heralded as a national model for diversifying the sciences, the program has helped hundreds of high-achieving students from minority backgrounds earn advanced degrees in science, math, engineering, and related fields.

Now there’s another question: How can universities like UMBC help a wider array of students, the ones who don’t have the top SAT scores or the very highest GPAs? How can they scale a program like Meyerhoff to help the masses, the students in the middle?

Read more at Open Campus.

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