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Bridge to College

·Feb 18, 2022

Can I Get Back Into College After Dropping Out?

First off. Just in case you are reading this BEFORE dropping out, and this is the opinion of absolutely everyone at Bridge to College: DO NOT DROP OUT. Really, under any circumstances, do not drop out! And if you’re reading this AFTER dropping out, the answer is YES! You can…

College

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Can I Get Back Into College After Dropping Out?
Can I Get Back Into College After Dropping Out?
College

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Bridge to College

·Apr 26, 2021

Try This Option

This morning, I turned on my favorite news channel and became livid. It wasn’t the usual anxiety-inducing conversations of late. It was worse to me because it was an attack on the one thing that is guaranteed to aggrandize communities of color, communities in poverty, and communities encountering violence: college.

College

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College

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Mar 16, 2020

Healing in the Time of Corona

I was recently struck by a blog post from Antero Garcia: You don’t do school when you are sick. You heal. When a school community is rocked by a natural disaster — an earthquake, a wildfire, a tornado–we don’t send students to Google classroom and we don’t ask teachers to…

Coronaviruses

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Healing in the Time of Corona
Healing in the Time of Corona
Coronaviruses

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Mar 11, 2020

Coronavirus and College

If you parent a high school or college student or you are a high school or college student, you are probably wondering how the coronavirus might impact your college admissions decisions and college life. …

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Coronavirus and College
Coronavirus and College

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Published in

Bridge to College

·Feb 20, 2020

Why Poor Students are Going to the Wrong Colleges and Why You Should Care

Recently the Hechinger Report published “The universities that enroll more poor students have less financial aid to give,” detailing the disparities in funding at public flagship universities compared to their counterparts. The piece lists a number of interesting data points, including: 41% of public four year colleges cost more than…

College Admissions

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Why Poor Students are Going to the Wrong Colleges and Why You Should Care
Why Poor Students are Going to the Wrong Colleges and Why You Should Care
College Admissions

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Published in

Bridge to College

·Sep 19, 2019

The Insidiousness of Racism: Education, Machine Learning, and Coffee

Yesterday, I was feeling ill but needed to go to work anyway. I thought that a nice cup of coffee from one of my favorite places would be a perfect way to start the day and make me feel better. When I walked into the coffee shop, there were people…

Education

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The Insidiousness of Racism: Education, Machine Learning, and Coffee
The Insidiousness of Racism: Education, Machine Learning, and Coffee
Education

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Sep 14, 2019

What Fourteen Days is Worth: Sentencing in the College Admissions Scandal

I think one of the core societal issues we grapple with is what is a crime and how that correlates to punishment. The news has daily discussions about the crimes that the president has committed or is being investigated for committing. CNN.com Yet he has yet to receive a consequence…

Education

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What Fourteen Days is Worth: Sentencing in the College Admissions Scandal
What Fourteen Days is Worth: Sentencing in the College Admissions Scandal
Education

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Age of Awareness

·Mar 13, 2019

Today’s College Admission Scandal Demonstrates Precisely Why Underserved People Need to be in Industry

I wasn’t surprised to see all of the news reports of wealthy parents getting caught gaming the college admissions system. I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of messages I received asking me to weigh in on the controversy. I must be doing something right because they were asking…

Education

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Today’s College Admission Scandal Demonstrates Precisely Why Underserved People Need to be in…
Today’s College Admission Scandal Demonstrates Precisely Why Underserved People Need to be in…
Education

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Bridge to College

·Feb 9, 2019

Graduation Rates and Sallie Mae

When I was in college, it was never a question of how long it would take me to graduate: four years or less. My friends, who were also on scholarship, had the same mentality. During finals, we would give each other a head nod when we spotted each other in…

Education

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Graduation Rates and Sallie Mae
Graduation Rates and Sallie Mae
Education

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Nov 19, 2018

First Gen Entrepreneur

Way before talk of a wall, my aunt traveled across the border with a paid coyote. She was Black, dark enough to fit outside the norms of Latino identity. If ever that was a benefit, it was at the border. But her sons looked more mestizo so they were tucked…

Short Story

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First Gen Entrepreneur
First Gen Entrepreneur
Short Story

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