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Portillo transferred to VCU through the NEXT Step VCU dual-admissions program earlier this year. (Dean Hoffmeyer, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Mexico and medicine inspire transfer student Alberto Robles Portillo

The NEXT Step VCU dual-admissions program helped the biology major and aspiring doctor transfer from Reynolds Community College.

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VCU first generation students posing on the VCU letters

Here’s firsthand advice from VCU’s first-generation students

An amazing 40% of this year’s incoming class are breaking ground in their families, and the You First student mentors are helping them navigate college.

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A student military veteran holding books with American flag in background

VCU receives $2.3 million federal grant to support student military veterans

The three-year award will expand staffing, space and programming in the Military Student Services Office.

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Image of Amala Kavumkandathil Sreekumar looking over a balcony

World@VCU: Amala Kavumkandathil Sreekumar from India

‘I cannot think of a day where I don’t learn anything new.’

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