This week our high school juniors took a day out of their busy summer schedules and spent the day visiting UC Santa Cruz. They were treated to a tour of campus, where they met and chatted with admission folks, students, and faculty. There was even a deer and raccoon, but no word yet on whether any banana slugs made […]
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Impact Day is an annual world-wide day of service for Deloitte and its employees. For the past four years First Graduate® has partners with Deloitte to host the education-focused site for Impact Day here in San Francisco. Impact Day is primarily a career development event for First Graduate® high school and college students. Through interactive activities
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Visiting a college campus for the first time can be a thrilling, scary, and overwhelming experience – sometimes all three at once. I remember being nervous when I stepped onto my first college campus. In fact, I was terrified. I was sure that my overly-excited parents, though well-intentioned, would be so caught up in their zeal
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One of the first challenges First Graduate helps students and families overcome on their path towards a college degree is choosing and applying to high school. To help make the process a little less stressful, we held a High School Choice Fair last weekend that over 80 students and families attended. During the fair, students and parents heard
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The Maisin Scholar Award is awarded to 75 seniors in SFUSD high schools so that they can pursue a higher level of education and open doors to their dreams. Last week six First Graduate® students received the award and were honored at an award ceremony at Lowell High School. Congratulations to Tanusree, Daisy, William, Valeria, Maria, and Sarah.
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It’s our favorite time of year here at First Graduate – graduation season. Here are some highlights from the Mission High School graduation last night where First Graduate® students Alejandra, Tanusree, Sally, and Jian all received their diplomas. Congratulations to all our graduating seniors!
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While our high school seniors were making their college choices earlier this month, our freshmen, sophomores, and juniors were busy cramming into vans and running up and down the California coast doing college tours. The purpose was to give our students a better idea of what campus life is really like, let them meet and chat with
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Exploring the Possibilities is an annual high school career exposure event. The goals of the event were (1) to expose students to a variety of industries (“possibilities”) that are available with a college degree, (2) to help students understand the educational background, skills, and experience necessary to pursue a career, and (3) to catch a
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By Jose Luis, Freshman at Wesleyan University One of the best parts about working in Social Media is the fast-paced and highly social environment that surrounds the whole atmosphere around communication. I enjoy the vitality and zest that it brings to many companies. Social Media allows so many people from different walks of life to communicate from around the world in
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A big “thank you” to Manali Patel and all the folks at Funding Circle for hosting a special advisory session with our high school students. Manali reached out to First Graduate® and asked for ways to get more involved with our students (we love it when that happens!) and we were thrilled to link them up with
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