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On December 19th, the Schuler Family Foundation held its 2nd annual Homecoming College Panel. The event, held at Waukegan High School, was tailored to spur discussion between scholars currently enrolled in college and high school scholars.
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The academic year finds Schuler Scholars working busily to prepare for entrance into the nation’s most selective colleges. Read on to learn what one WHS senior is doing outside of the classroom that is making her so unique among her peers.
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Dante’s Divine Comedy, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo. These titles to be found on an advanced college reading list are the very same titles that sophomores in the Schuler Foundation’s Reading Improvement Program are completing for pleasure reading. This is the second year of the Reading Improvement Program and Schuler Scholars are eager to read advanced placement, college-level reading material that prepares them not only for the testing and application process that they will undergo in preparation for college, but provides the critical thinking and literary basis that is necessary for them to excel while they are there.
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“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances”
(As You Like It II, 7,139-141)
One of the key components of the Schuler Scholar Program is the variety of cultural events to which the scholars are exposed. Most recently, Schuler scholars traveled to an Uptown Chicago Theatre to see a staged production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. The small theatre, seating no more than 100 people, with a thrust stage is a common sight in Chicago, and the perfect environment in which to experience this great playwright.
The words of William Shakespeare give much insight into the way his plays should be experienced. Students are usually introduced to
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Summer, for the typical high school student, is a time for relaxing, reading, working, traveling, and socializing with family and friends. But the one thing that summer usually does not involve is academics. The three months off are greatly anticipated and coveted by high school students, and opening text books is not on the agenda. Though the Schuler Scholar will not be opening a high school text book during the summer, rising juniors will be engaged in rigorous academic study at the nation’s most competitive colleges across the country.
Summer college programs are an invaluable part of what it means to be a Schuler Scholar. Each program lasts from two to six weeks during which time scholars take classes specific to their interests and strengths. For most scholars, going away for the
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Sitting with her jaw firmly set and her eyes sparkling, Cynthia Perez responded firmly, “Harvard definitely inspired me… I think it’s definitely possible to go there. I just need to work hard”. The question having been, “What did you think of the colleges you visited over spring break?”
Junior scholars recently returned to classes after spending spring break visiting Harvard, Brown, Tufts, Amherst, Smith, Wheaton, Case Western, John Carroll, Wooster, Denison and Wittenberg. The days were filled with tours, information sessions, and tasting college food. With minds crammed full of information, students returned with new perspectives and images of the colleges that now seemed within their grasp.
Junior Schuler Scholar, Perez, who has had a perfect GPA every semeste
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One of the most important elements of the multifaceted experience that comprises being a Schuler Scholar occurs not only while school is not even in session, but also when students are first selected to become Schuler Scholars.
Camp Manito-wish, a YMCA camp located in Boulder Junction WI, offers a leadership experience designed especially for the Schuler Scholar Program. The Program’s newly selected scholars and thrust into a ten day series of challenging and stretching situations wherein each scholar learns about his/her peers and fellow scholars and perhaps most importantly about himself/herself.
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Raeven Grant is beginning her sophomore year at Waukegan High School. This summer she along with nearly one hundred local high school students was inducted into the Schuler Scholar Program. Admission into the program is based upon academic performance, motivation, character, need for guidance, education, extracurricular involvement and financial need. Raeven met all of these standards, and she and her mother Roberta recently discussed their involvement with the program.
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As thousands of high school students across the country are trying to get noticed by selective colleges, Schuler Scholars are winning opportunities to increase their chances for admission to some of the best schools in the country. During the fall semester, a large number of colleges invite high school students to apply for fall fly-in programs, for which colleges fund students to visit campuses for an overnight stay, sit in on classes and interview with admissions reps. While many students have access to this type of opportunity, few visits are actually fully funded by each college. Much like a job interview, fly-in programs allow colleges greater access to potential students who would otherwise be unable to visit the campus.
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