Posse foundation scholarship

[Anonymous]

Read the email from mcps tonight called “things to know about mcps this week” and the posse foundation full scholarship. Can anyone tell me more about this besides what’s listed in their website?

[Anonymous]

What do you want to know that’s not listed on their site? It’s an excellent program.

[Anonymous]

The Posse Foundation provides full scholarships (including R&B) to a group (posse) of students at select schools. The posse comes into the school together and is intended to provide support to one another. In the summers, the Posse Foundation provides support in the form of job seminars, opportunities to meet with local government and business officials, help with internships, etc.

The posse generally consists of a several bright, accomplished kids who are first generation college students from disadvantaged homes, rounded out with a few (also bright and accomplished) kids who come from homes with more advantages including college-educated parent(s). The idea is that the kids from more advantaged homes will contribute to the posse by sharing their social capital; that is, their knowledge of how to work the system (even if that knowledge is "I don't know what you should do, but I will ask my mom." The application and interview process is very rigorous.

Posse only works with schools they have agreements with, so you would only apply if you are willing to go to one of those schools. The DC-based Posse Foundation currently partners with Bucknell, Lafayette, Lewis & Clark, Sewanee, Rochester, and Wisconsin. (Until recently, they also partnered with Grinnell.) (Posse Foundations in other cities partner with different schools, but I believe you have to apply to the Posse in your area.)

Does that help?

[Anonymous]

one correction: The scholarships may be tuition only? Not sure.

[Anonymous]

It's a full-tuition scholarship, which is amazing! One potential downside is that students from a given region are only matched with a certain set of schools.

DC Partner Colleges and Universities:
Bucknell
Lafayette
Lewis & Clark
Sewanee
U of Rochester
U Wisconsin-Madison

If you're looking at programs for a current junior, you might also want to consider checking to see if they're eligible for Questbridge, which matches students with 50 schools.

[Anonymous]

I think this really sums up with the program is about.

Posse was founded in 1989 because of one student who said, “I never would’ve dropped out of college if I’d had my posse with me.” The simple idea of sending a group of students together to college so they could “back each other up” became the impetus for a program that today has identified, recruited and trained more than 10,000 students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a full-tuition scholarship, which is amazing! One potential downside is that students from a given region are only matched with a certain set of schools.

DC Partner Colleges and Universities:
Bucknell
Lafayette
Lewis & Clark
Sewanee
U of Rochester
U Wisconsin-Madison

If you're looking at programs for a current junior, you might also want to consider checking to see if they're eligible for Questbridge, which matches students with 50 schools.

I know a few finalists, including one who turned it down.

I think they rotate schools so the offerings aren’t always the same.

There’s a point in the process where the interviewing is very intense and the kids really have to want the scholarship more than anything else going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a full-tuition scholarship, which is amazing! One potential downside is that students from a given region are only matched with a certain set of schools.

DC Partner Colleges and Universities:
Bucknell
Lafayette
Lewis & Clark
Sewanee
U of Rochester
U Wisconsin-Madison

If you're looking at programs for a current junior, you might also want to consider checking to see if they're eligible for Questbridge, which matches students with 50 schools.

I know a few finalists, including one who turned it down.

I think they rotate schools so the offerings aren’t always the same.

There’s a point in the process where the interviewing is very intense and the kids really have to want the scholarship more than anything else going on.

For many kids, scholarship money is a really, really big deal.

Perhaps not so much for kids of DCUM parents.

[Anonymous]

I know three of this year’s winners- amazing! So happy for them.

[Anonymous]

They have a website. Google is your friend

[Anonymous]

One thing about the land of the free. Some people get the freebies others go I to a lifetime of debt. It's luck of the draw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing about the land of the free. Some people get the freebies others go I to a lifetime of debt. It's luck of the draw.

Or you could count yourself lucky You did not experience the same poverty as the posse recipient

You know in lots of countries everybody gets free college.

[Anonymous]

I know one of the board members. It's a wonderful program.

[Anonymous]

Poverty kids are not excluded from the debt based system of countries like the US that poorly fund students and over fund fat cats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing about the land of the free. Some people get the freebies others go I to a lifetime of debt. It's luck of the draw.

Or you could count yourself lucky You did not experience the same poverty as the posse recipient

You know in lots of countries everybody gets free college.

Not all recipients are impoverished. It’s more complex than that.