Category: Wright College
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Lillian Rivera
Lillian Rivera spent decades away from the classroom before she decided it was time to earn her high school diploma. She left Schurz High School in the early 1990s when she was told she would have to repeat her junior year due to a lack of credits. After that, she worked various jobs, mainly in…
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Alum Vasilios Soupos
“Wright College proved to be the foundation for my career in engineering. My interest in and knowledge of chemical engineering really took shape and blossomed there, and the support I received from faculty and staff was tremendous.” – Vasilios Soupos, Engineering Leader at Underwriters Laboratories (UL LLC) and Wright College alum
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Vasilios Soupos
Vasilios Soupos is an Engineering Leader at Underwriters Laboratories (UL LLC) in Northbrook, IL. His professional success is partly due to his time at Wright College. Before transferring to Illinois Tech, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering, Vasilios completed his associate degree at Wright College, graduating in 1999. He later spent…
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Izaki Metropoulos
Izaki Metropoulos is on his way to one of the most elite liberal arts colleges in the country – something he couldn’t have imagined when he dropped out of high school early in his sophomore year. Born and raised on the north side of Chicago, Izaki attended a CPS high school his freshman year, but…
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Rachida Belsifar
Although Rachida Belsifar earned a bachelor’s of arts degree as well as a degree in computer management in Morocco, when she moved to the U.S. in 2012, she had to start over with her education. She decided to take classes at Wright College, and graduated in 2017 with her associate degree in computer science. Rachida…
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Laura Rybaltowska
Laura Rybaltowska has proven to be a quick study during her brief time in the United States. After graduating in 2015 from a small high school in Poland, she decided to come to the United States for a year to work as an au pair for a family in Chicago. “It was such a big…
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Amanda Bowers
Memories of building computers with her self-taught dad helped motivate Amanda Bowers to get a degree in computer science after 6 years of working in fast food. Having grown up in Chicago, Amanda lived in Alabama for 10 years before returning to the city she loves. She had two daughters, and then felt as though…
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I would not be where I am today without my experience at Wright College. The classes I took, the friends I made, the clubs I was involved with all built my character and made me who I am. – Anh Leu, Wright College alum
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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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Women in Engineering at Wright College
Meet some Wright College alumni who took advantage of the Engineering Pathway and earned guaranteed admission to the School of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!