Category: Scholarships
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Kaela Redd
Kaela Redd advises any high school student thinking about starting out at City Colleges to do it. Not only did she earn her associate degree for free thanks to the Star Scholarship, she has also received scholarships from the CME Group, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and DePaul, covering a large portion of her tuition…
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Sareena Volkman
Sareena Volkman is already using her education to try and create positive change in the world around her. A graduate of Taft High School, Sareena attended Wright College as a Star Scholar and graduated debt free in the spring of 2019. But her time at Wright College started her on a path to political activism…
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Alec Telles
Alec Telles’ ultimate goal is to help solve climate change and other environmental issues through engineering – and this Truman College graduate is well on his way. When he graduated from Taft High School, he wasn’t sure what his next move would be. He didn’t want to apply to four-year universities because he was afraid…
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Kamron Southall
At the age of 21, Star Scholar Kamron Southall is not only graduating from Harold Washington College with an Associate Degree in Computer Science, he has landed a full-time job at JPMorgan Chase & Co after a year-long apprenticeship. Always interested in computers, Kamron said he learned “the language and the logic of programming” in…
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Marisol Perez
Truman College Star Scholar and soon-to-be proud alumna Marisol Perez has a tough decision to make: where to transfer to earn her bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education? Marisol has been admitted to Elmhurst College, Concordia University, and Eastern Illinois University, and is waiting to hear from Northeastern Illinois University before making a final decision.…
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Luis Matos
Luis Matos came to the U.S. from Venezuela when he was 15 years old due to family reasons, moving to Chicago to live with his uncle. He attended Kelly High School, and always knew that college was in his future. When he was a junior in high school, his counselor told him about the Star…
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Dallas Brodersen
When Dallas Brodersen graduated from Jones College Prep in 2018, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to study, but she did know that she was heading to Wright College. Not only was her brother already studying there, but she qualified for the Star Scholarship, which paid for her tuition and books while she earned her…
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Hidaya Hassan
As a first-generation college student, Hidaya Hassan and her family are thrilled that not only is she earning her associate degree this spring without having paid any tuition thanks to the Star Scholarship, but she has also been named Wright College’s valedictorian. Hidaya was born in Palestine, the second youngest of eight children, but her…
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Anaiza Cartagena
By the time Anaiza Cartagena earns her bachelor’s degree, she will not have paid any college tuition. When she graduated from Chicago Bulls College Prep, she was drawn to Truman College because a friend of her older sister was a student there and loved it, and because she qualified for the Star Scholarship – meaning…
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Muhammad Bangash
You could say Muhammad Bangash is going into the family business by studying computer science – his father is a software engineer and his mother is a civil engineer. This Truman College student and Truman Middle College alumnus will graduate with his associate degree in Computer Science this Spring, before he heads to Northeastern Illinois…