Scholarship on first-generation students from rural areas has largely analyzed educational barriers to college going and completion rather than acknowledge the unique matriculation process and sources of support that aid in circumventing educational barriers. Building on prior educational mobility literatures and utilizing an anti-deficit achievement framework, I draw from 20 in-depth interviews with first-generation, rural students to analyze support structures and the strategies these students employed to bypass class, race and geographic barriers to college enrollment. As my findings highlight, these students had limited access to college preparatory materials and classes while in high school, yet they and their families employed creative strategies and mechanisms that counteracted the educational resources they were lacking. My discussion highlights these strategies and mechanisms, and I conclude by suggesting future research directions—directions that recognize both challenges and opportunities for college going rural student populations.

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获得学术资格：第一代农村大学学生的大学入学率*

针对农村地区第一代学生的奖学金主要分析了上大学和完成学业的教育障碍，而不是承认有助于规避教育障碍的独特的入学过程和支持来源。基于先前的教育流动文献并利用反赤字成就框架，我从对第一代农村学生的 20 次深入访谈中提取了支持结构以及这些学生为绕过阶级、种族和地理障碍进入大学所采用的策略注册。正如我的发现所强调的那样，这些学生在高中时获得大学预科材料和课程的机会有限，但他们和他们的家人采用了创造性的策略和机制来抵消他们缺乏的教育资源。