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NMH Upward Bound Program Seeks New Ninth-Grade Participants

The Northfield Mount Hermon Upward Bound Program is currently recruiting new students from Springfield Central High School, the High School of Science and Technology, and Holyoke High Schools. The program is a federally funded, year-round college preparation program for students who meet income eligibility or whose parents do not have a bachelor’s degree. Students who are accepted receive tutoring, academic advising, after-school classes, and college and financial-aid application assistance in their local high schools until they graduate. Participants also spend six weeks each summer in a residential program on the Northfield Mount Hermon campus where they take classes, receive tutoring, and take part in college and cultural trips, career exploration, sports, and many other activities. Full scholarships to cover the $20,000 cost of this program are awarded to all students who are accepted. Applications are available in the guidance offices at each school and on our website, www.nmhschool.org/upwardbound. Current ninth graders interested in the program should come to one of these information sessions with a parent or guardian. Students whose parents attend will be given priority in the application process.

HOLYOKE

• Thursday, November 17        6 p.m. Holyoke High School Cafeteria 

SPRINGFIELD

• Thursday November 17         7:30 p.m.  Kasparian Center on Alton Street

For more information, call us at (413) 498-3416. Upward Bound advisers are also available to answer questions after school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at the Holyoke High library; Tuesdays and Thursdays at the High School of Science and Technology library or Room 125; and at Central High on Wednesdays in Room 234.

November 14, 2005
Contact: Gisele Litalien, Director, NMH Upward Bound Program, (413) 498-3652 or glitalien@nmhschool.org

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