Before beginning research or even formulating a question, it was important to find what had already been done on the topic of Latino students. In the beginning of the project, I struggled with forming a research question. I knew I wanted the focus to be on Latino students; but didn’t know how to make the question sociological. Upon reading that Latino students are more likely to live in poverty and are less likely to have college educated parents, (Dondero & Chandra, 2012) I knew one of my focuses had to be on a student’s socio-economic status and to understand how despite that, they are able to attend and succeed in
