A set of quadruplet brothers, who go to high school outside Cincinnati, have been accepted by Harvard and Yale, among other top schools. And because the Wade quads, from Lakota East High School, all wrote about being part of a multiple birth, they may have helped themselves get into the Ivies. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/849592329728131072 According to the New York […]
A17-year-old New Jersey student has a serious dilemma that most of us wish we had back in high school: which elite university to attend? WABC-TV reports that Ifeoma White-Thorpe received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford University. https://twitter.com/DenvilleSchool/status/849278088076816385 “I was shaking, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,’ like […]
For the first time in Ballou High School history, every single senior at the predominately Black school applied to college this year. Just think: Last year, only 57 percent of their students graduated. According to The Washington Post, Ballou, which is located in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods, has long had a negative reputation and many […]
McDonald’s of Northeast Ohio is partnering with the Urban League of Greater Cleveland (ULGC) for its 29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Bus Tour taking place March 27 – 31. The five-day tour provides approximately 100 minority students a unique educational and cultural experience as they visit six historically black colleges and universities across […]
A small, historically black university in Ohio could lose its accreditation due to problems including low enrollment and financial deficits. The Higher Learning Commission sent a “show cause order” to Wilberforce University this past week requiring the school to show why its accreditation shouldn’t be withdrawn. Loss of accreditation could result in students […]
