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Over seven years after he started college, Antonio became the first college graduate in his family.Antonio's success is all too rare for the 40% of college students who are older than 24 ("Table 191") and the 73% of undergraduates identified as "nontraditional" by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (Choy 1-3), where NCES defines nontraditional students as having one or more of the following seven characteristics: "financial independence, part-time attendance, delayed enrollment, full-time work,