I t's never too early to start planning for college.
Some parents prepare for education expenses by starting a college fund when a child is born.
But for parents who wait until a child's senior year in high school, it's almost too late. Efforts to end Affirmative Action programs in college admissions have severely limited minority student enrollment,but with proper preparation for college entrance tests like the SAT and the ACT, Hispanic students can overcome this negative trend. The Census Bureau had projected that Hispanics would become the country's largest minority population segment by the year 2010. In April 1998, the Census Bureau revised this projection, saying that Hispanics will become the largest U.S. minority subgroup by the year 2005. Obviously, such growth poses many challenges for the Hispanic community.