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Eight students receive APIASF scholarships
7/24/2010 10:34 AM
Not many scholarship recipients are given such a memorable ceremony as was a group of Hmong women invited by State Sen. Mee Moua to the Minnesota Senate Chamber at the State Capitol last week. It was the second year in a row that several Twin Cities area students received $2,500 university scholarships from the Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund that was made possible with donations from Farmers Insurance.
Five of the young women are Admission Possible program graduates, and Xue in particular talks about how Admission Possible helped her secure scholarship funds. Read the full story in Asian American Press. |
Dual-credit focus now is on under-represented, low-income and at-risk students
6/21/2010 3:47 PM
Admission Possible's Jim McCorkell contributes to the discussion surrounding PSEO and low-income, at-risk students. Read the full story in MinnPost. |
Admission Possible Graduates Ready for College
6/14/2010 10:03 AM
Jeniffer Gonzalez came to Milwaukee from Puerto Rico three years ago looking for a better life. She entered South Division High School knowing little English but managed to get high marks during an interview with a new organization that promised to help low-income, minority students get to college. Read the full story in the Journal Sentinel. |
Admission Possible celebrates at Year-End Graduation Celebration
6/7/2010 9:59 AM
Nearly 1,000 low-income students celebrated this school year’s achievements at the ninth annual Admission Possible-Greater Twin Cities Year-End Graduation Celebration May 22 at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium. Read the full story in Insight News and Hmong Times. |
Cooper student is one of 20 in Minnesota to receive Gates scholarship
5/27/2010 9:54 AM
Samuel Ogunyemi, 18, a Crystal resident and International Baccalaureate senior at Cooper High School, is one of 20 Minnesota students to receive the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Sam is also an Admission Possible senior at Robbinsdale Cooper High School. Read more of his story in the Sun Post. |
Admission Possible aims to place more low-income kids on the path to a college education
5/26/2010 3:00 PM
At a White House event last June, President Barack Obama highlighted the work of St. Paul-based Admission Possible, an organization that helps teenagers from poor families get into college. During his comments about innovative nonprofits, Obama acknowledged Admission Possible’s founder and chief executive officer, Jim McCorkell, while citing the group’s work with low-income families that resulted in almost all of its 2008 class getting into college. Read more in Politics in Minnesota. |
Admission Possible shows the way for college aspirants
5/22/2010 8:00 AM
Today, 667 seniors from 19 metro-area high schools -- Admission Possible - Greater Twin Cities' largest graduating class ever -- will celebrate their achievement and the nonprofit's 10th anniversary at Northrup Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus. About 98 percent of the students have been admitted to colleges. Read more in the Star Tribune. |
First Lady Doyle meets with Admission Possible students at Milwaukee School of Languages
5/21/2010 2:57 PM
First Lady Jessica Doyle will meet with Admission Possible students on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at the Milwaukee School of Languages in Milwaukee. While there, Mrs. Doyle will discuss with these high school students their plans for higher education and experience in this college preparation program. Read more in Wisconsinpolitics.com. |
Nonprofit helps students flourish in St. Louis Park
5/18/2010 1:13 PM
Many St. Louis Park students have made gains in their college plans through the work of nonprofit Admission Possible but one participant's achievements particularly stand out. Joel Liz-Fonts raised his ACT score nine points and, significantly, won a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Read more in the Sun Sailor. |
Helping overcome hurdles: Group working to get more students to college
5/7/2010 1:31 PM
Last year, expectations were low that South Division High School junior Laticqwenicia Clarke would attend college. Now, as she nears the end of her senior year, Clarke has gotten a high enough score on her ACT to be accepted into six schools, and in the fall, she will be the first person in her family to attend college. Clarke credits her success to Admission Possible, a nonprofit organization that expanded to Milwaukee in 2008 to help promising low-income students prepare for and earn admission into college. Read more about Admission Possible's work in Milwaukee in the Milwaukee Business Journal. |
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