UCLA Researchers worked with a community non-profit organization called InnerCity Struggle to understand the reasons that hinder academic success in East Los Angeles college students. After designing a comprehensive survey, we distributed it to two colleges in East Los Angeles and gathered 648 responses. We learned that our sample consisted of mostly Latinx or Hispanic first generation students whose familial income was less than $40,000 a year. In order to understand what hinders academic success, we asked students whether they had been placed on academic probation or academically withdrawn in the past, and used their responses as outcome variables. We analyzed the data using statistical software, testing the significance of a variety of predictor variables using multiple one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) tests, and found that the following predictor variables are significantly related to academic probation: current GPA, stress in school, high school GPA, family support, time spent in college, and age. We also found that the following predictor variables are significantly related to academic withdrawal: current GPA, high school GPA, time spent in college, financial factors, and age.