January 18, 2012  Are you ready for some college?  By Andrew
Zender  Miguel Ramos, Garden City, Kan., a junior majoring in
business marketing, gives high school students a campus tour
during an April 2011 College for a Day visit.  For many of us
who attended K-State, the question of whether we'd apply to
college wasn't much of an issue. It was more like an
eventuality. So imagine being a senior in high school and
believing that college isn't even an option.  "There are a lot
of kids out there who don't know they can go to college," said
Dawne Martin, assistant dean for diversity in the College of
Business Administration at K-State. "If their parents aren't
college educated, if their school counselors don't push
universities, they don't know."  This is especially true for
multicultural students and students from inner-city schools.
These students often face so many financial and cultural
barriers, they're actually discouraged from applying.  "They're
told they can't do it," Martin said. "So they're never taugh