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Achieve Atlanta launches need-based scholarships ties for financing college. Achieve Atlanta understands that while high school advising and scholarships will help more APS students access post-secondary education, it is not enough to get them over the finish line. Less than half of APS students who enroll in college graduate within six years. Starting in early March, APS seniors will be able to apply for the Achieve At-
lanta Scholarship. Eligibility requirements include enrollment and graduation from an APS high school, and minimum standards related to GPA, financial need and post-secondary enrollment. “We launched the scholarship program because we believe our students deserve a fair chance to achieve their dreams,” Fernandez said. “This is a lifechanger for a lot of our students.”
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five APS high school graduates completes a post-secondary degree of any kind. Yet by Achieve Atlanta will award 2020, 60 percent of the jobs approximately 900 needin Georgia will require some based scholarships this spring form of post-secondary deto eligible Atlanta Public gree. School (APS) high school seNeed-based scholarships nior applicants. Recipients are a key part of Achieve Atwill receive up to $5,000 per lanta’s strategy to tear down year for a four-year instituthe barriers that prevent stution or up to $1,500 per year dents, especially those who are the first for a two-year college or technical in their families to go on to higher edschool. Scholarships are renewable for ucation, from completing a degree or student recipients who remain in good credential after high school. academic standing. Achieve Atlanta is a supporting orga“Our vision is to have every student nization of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and is currently funded through a grant from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation. Achieve Atlanta invests in strategies that combine financial assistance with academic and social supports to increase postsecondary access, retention and completion. Since Achieve Atlanta’s launch in July 2015, there are 30 additional mentoring adults serving all APS high schools, thanks to a partnership with the College Advising Corps and Hands on Atlanta/AmeriCorps. Prior to this effort, it is estimated that for every 400 APS high College Access Coach Trudy Nelson with school students, there was one of her ninth-grade students. one counselor. College Advising Corps mentors work with 11th and 12th gradin APS complete post-secondary eduers on the “nuts and bolts” of going to cation and attain the full benefits that college, such as ACT/SAT test prep, aphigher education provides,” said Tina plications, applying for scholarships Fernandez, Achieve Atlanta executive and more. For ninth and 10th graders, director. “When paired with other fiHands on Atlanta/AmeriCorps mennancial aid, these scholarships are intors work on building awareness and a tended to greatly reduce the need for “college-going mindset.” For example, families to get high-interest, private ninth graders hear about the imporloans,” Fernandez added. tance of a good GPA and the possibiliRecent data shows that only one in
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