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Admission Possible Students Fight Summer Slide
3/9/2010 9:38 AM
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Admission Possible partnered with LearningWorks and the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership to put on the third annual Summer Enrichment Fair on March 6. The fair offered low-income students from the Twin Cities metro area access to summer programs to keep them learning over the long break from classroom activities. |
Admission Possible Receives Innovation Award from College Board
2/22/2010 4:18 PM
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The College Board has named Twin Cities-based nonprofit Admission Possible as one of the three winners of the first CollegeKeys Compact™ Innovation Awards. Winners of the award have initiated innovative, effective best practices that help low-income students get ready, get in and get through college. |
St. Paul Nonprofit Offers College Grads Meaningful Work
2/9/2010 10:08 AM
St. Paul, Minn. – Admission Possible offices in St. Paul and Milwaukee are recruiting to fill more than 60 AmeriCorps positions in the next two months. The nonprofit offers free college prep programming to promising, low-income high school students and is looking for high school and college coaches, community and events organizers and external relations team members. |
Students Search for Colleges Close to Home
2/2/2010 1:36 PM
St. Paul, Minn. – More than 400 low-income high school students will fan out across the Twin Cities Wednesday and Thursday in search of the perfect college. They’re a part of Admission Possible’s Metro Visit Days, which offers Admission Possible students a chance to tour one of six institutions without leaving the metro. |
Admission Possible Coaches: Mentoring for a Brighter Future
1/25/2010 9:28 AM
St. Paul, Minn. - The ninth annual Mentoring Month draws to a close this week across the nation, but the spirit of the month will carry on all year at the 19 Twin Cities area high schools in which Admission Possible coaches are serving as mentors to students with dreams of going to college. |
Admission Possible Students Scare up 10,000-Pound Donation for Foodshelf
11/4/2009 1:44 PM
St. Paul, Minn. – Admission Possible students weren’t looking for candy when they knocked on doors across the Twin Cities on October 31. They were searching for cans of peas, rolls of paper towels and packets of Ramen. More than 750 staff and students in the college access program went “trick-or-treating” for canned goods in 13 metro neighborhoods to support Minnesota’s Emergency Foodshelf Network. |
Entering 10th Year, Admission Possible Receives National Acclaim
9/30/2009 11:00 AM
St. Paul, Minn. – Within the last two weeks, local nonprofit Admission Possible launched its 10th year of programming and received two national awards of excellence from associations representing the highest standards in the college access field. These national endorsements for the organization’s innovative model helping low-income high school students access college follow the accolades received from President Barack Obama in June regarding Admission Possible’s results for students and encouragement to grow. |
Admission Possible Receives $75,000 from Great Lakes
9/23/2009 1:23 PM
St. Paul, Minn. – Admission Possible recently received $75,000 from Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation to expand its award-winning program to Coon Rapids Public High School. This fall, nearly 40 low-income Coon Rapids began the two-year college prep program, joining Admission Possible’s largest cohort yet, more than 1,400 students at 19 high schools. |
Inspiring Stories of Success Amidst Harrowing Statistics
9/16/2009 12:34 PM
St. Paul, Minn. – In Minnesota, the demand for college-educated workers is forecasted to exceed the supply available to employers in the next few years due in large part to decreasing numbers of high school graduates and the lower rate at which low-income students are accessing college. However, Minnesota students, administrators, community leaders and colleges prove this trend can be reversed in their interviews and stories shared in a new documentary, College IS Possible, co-produced by Twin Cities Public Television’s MN Channel and Admission Possible. Click here for the full release and links to video. |
Results Drive Growth at Admission Possible
8/31/2009 10:38 AM
St. Paul, Minn. – As summer ends and school kicks off, Admission Possible begins its 10th year of service to low-income students in the Twin Cities, having grown student services 100-fold since the organization’s founding in 2000. In its biggest program year yet, Admission Possible will work with the most students it has ever accepted and, to help coach these students to success, will welcome its largest group of AmeriCorps members. |
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