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July 8, 2008Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Helps 46 Community College Stars Transfer to Top Four-Year Institutions |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The gateway to the top American colleges is often closed to the roughly six million students who attend America's two-year and community colleges - nearly half of all undergraduates. Just this year, Harvard University shut its doors to transfer students for the next two years, citing lack of adequate housing. Yet a highly motivated, exceptionally promising group of community college students from lower-income backgrounds is pushing the doors open to some of the nation's top four-year universities, transferring to such institutions as Stanford, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania with the help of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a nonprofit champion of high-achieving lower-income students. Each year the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation works to identify the best community college students in the nation to receive its prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, which awards up to $30,000 per year for up to three years, making it the country's largest, most competitive undergraduate transfer scholarship. This year's 46 scholarship recipients will attend some of the best public and private colleges and universities in the nation, including Columbia University, Georgetown University, and New York University. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation dedicated to helping young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education.
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