Category: Early College
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Alan Quintana
This spring, Alan Quintana won’t just be earning his high school diploma – he’s also getting his associate degree. Knowing he wanted to continue his education after high school, Alan started taking college-level classes his junior year at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy through the City Colleges of Chicago Early College program. With an interest…
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Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez wanted to get a jump on his college career, so he took Early College classes and earned 21 college credits for free while he was still at John F. Kennedy High School. That means that once he graduated high school in 2018, it was only one more year at Daley College before he…
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Lyne Baimey
Lyne Baimey was born in West Africa, but came to Chicago with her family when she was 10 months old. She grew up in Bronzeville and attended Kenwood Academy, where she began her City Colleges career in the Dual Enrollment program. “Dual Enrollment gave me an idea of what college would be like, so it…
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Anh Leu
Anh Leu started her journey with City Colleges while she was still at Taft High School on the city’s Northwest Side, taking dual enrollment courses and earning college credit for free. After that introduction to Wright College, when it was time to decide on a college, continuing there just made sense -especially because Anh wished…
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Devin Thomas
It’s not every day that you hear a student has earned an associate degree before completing a high school diploma, but that’s exactly what Devin Thomas will be able to say he’s accomplished in December of 2018. A student at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy, Devin started taking college classes through the City Colleges of…
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Cheyenne Henry
When it comes to her education, to say Cheyenne Henry is motivated is an understatement. As part of the Early College Program at Daley College, she earned both her high school diploma and associate degree in December 2018, all before the age of 18. Cheyenne has taken advantage of every opportunity that has presented itself,…
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Salma Campos
Sometimes life gets in the way. For 19 year old Salma Campos, that’s exactly what happened, though it all worked out for her. This fall, for the first time in her life, Salma will not live in her Gage Park home – she’ll reside in Evanston as a Northwestern University sophomore. Salma graduated from Solorio…
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Diamond Webb
After graduating in the spring of 2018 with both her diploma from Sarah Goode STEM Academy and an associate degree from Daley College, Diamond Webb is off to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She’ll start there in the fall as a junior and aims to study political science. Getting to this point took a…
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Daleah Sampler
Daleah Sampler is the youngest of five children, all of whom attended City Colleges. Her older siblings all studied health care, but Daleah decided to change it up and study IT. In May 2018, she earned her Associate of Applied Science in Web Development from Daley College and a month later celebrates her graduation from…
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Kyra Washington
Sarah E. Goode senior Kyra Washington, 18, earned both an associate degree and a high school diploma in the spring of 2018. Kyra was a member of the volleyball, swimming and track teams, while also managing her rigorous Daley College coursework. She started taking college classes at Daley during her sophomore year, describing the experience…