Puerto Rico SIG Interest Form
Thanks for your interest!

We started this organization in order to address the unique issues surrounding college access by Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico. You do not need to be a NACAC member in order to join this SIG!

This is our mission statement:

"The Puerto Rico Special Interest Group seeks to represent the views and concerns of college admissions professionals responsible for the counseling, guidance, education, recruitment of Puerto Rican students studying in the mainland US and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The SIG is also responsible for the distribution, discussion and representation of any and all related topics, issues, and trends relevant to Puerto Rican students and college admission counseling professionals who work with this population, achieved through email correspondence, meetings and, workshops. We hope to increase awareness of the unique issues facing this population and promote a more nuanced approach to their counseling and recruitment."

For more information on the state of college access in Puerto Rico, please review these articles:

- "In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college"
https://hechingerreport.org/in-puerto-rico-the-odds-are-against-high-school-grads-who-want-to-go-to-college/

The Crush - Episode 42: Celeste Suris Rosselli and DJ Meehan on College Access in Puerto Rico
https://www.crushpodcast.com/college-access-in-puerto-rico/ 

Population Loss and School Closures in Puerto Rico
- https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/current-affairs/new-report-population-loss-and-school-closures-puerto-rico 

"Puerto Rican Students Are Getting a Lapse Year. That’s Not a Good Thing." https://theamericanonews.com/2020/04/28/puerto-rican-students-are-getting-a-lapse-year-thats-not-a-good-thing/

"In Devastated Puerto Rico, Universities Get Just a Fraction of Storm Aid"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/politics/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-emergency-aid.html

If you want to review the history of mainland college enrollment by students from Puerto Rico, you can do that here thanks to good ol' Jon Boeckenstedt: https://public.tableau.com/profile/jonboeckenstedt#!/vizhome/LongTermMigrationStudy/FreshmanMigrationPatternsOverTime 

We look forward to leveraging the collective enthusiasm of this membership to reduce barriers to accessing college, whether that college is the University of Puerto Rico or mainland United States.

Sincerely,

Djiara Meehan, St. John's School of Puerto Rico
Celeste Suris-Rosselli, Baldwin School of Puerto Rico
Davin Sweeney, Avenues NYC
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If you work for a college or university admissions office, does your office regard the PAA (https://latam.collegeboard.org/paa/) as an acceptable standardized exam for the purposes of applying for admission to your school?
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