Abstract
Mien students are part of the group of Southeast Asian students who have an extremely high drop-out rate, and low university admission rate. In addition to the low rate of college entrance, there is a lack of specific data concerning the Mien community. This in itself is a problem, because unless clear and provable numbers related to college completion and test scores confronts the education system, the issues surrounding Mien students will continue to be ignored. It is the belief of the researcher that if Mien parents were more equipped to support and assist their children and testing data was disaggregated, Mien students would begin to excel dramatically. As a group, they have already proved immense resiliency under difficult circumstances. If some of these difficult circumstances were lessened, many more young people would continue from high school on to college.