By Amanda David Douglas High School, '16 Lawrence University, '20 Pronouns: she/her It all started with a cheesecake; that was the essay that got me into college. It was a story, not of my successes, but rather my failure in…
By Monet Sutch, Community Partnerships Team member It’s a tradition for the College Possible Oregon team to volunteer together on National Make a Difference Day. This October, our AmeriCorps members and staff rolled up their sleeves to support the Foster…
By Aaliyah Parkrose High School, ‘18 Portland State University, ‘22 Major: Social Work, minor in Child Family Studies Pronouns: she/her Being raised by refugee parents and elders, I was taught to keep low, follow others, and do what it takes…
We are excited to announce the expansion of our high school program to Beaverton High School this year. After serving students effectively at Aloha High School for the past three years, the neighboring high school in Beaverton took notice. College…
On Monday, Sept. 12 College Possible Oregon was joined by 93 golfers at Stone Creek Golf Club for our first annual golf benefit that raised $62,000 in support of future college graduates from Oregon. We lucked out with wonderful weather…
By design, every year we welcome a whole new team of AmeriCorps members to serve with us for the school year. These members work directly with high school and college students as their near-peer coaches, making sure they’re staying on…
We are thrilled to welcome our two newest members: Anna Brigden, our new college access program manager, and Sarah “Raph” Raphael, our new college success program manager! Both program managers previously served as AmeriCorps members, and we are excited to…
Angela is currently a junior at Washington State University, majoring in kinesiology with a minor in strength and conditioning. She has been a part of College Possible since her junior year at Lindbergh High School. We sat down with Angela…
This great story was written by Emma Scheetz, an AmeriCorps Alumna who served with College Possible Washington. Great stories like this one are written by AmeriCorps members and read weekly at team meetings as a way for our team to…
College Possible Oregon is thrilled to announce Dr. Robin Beavers as the new chair of our board of directors and Clark Haass as the new vice-chair. College Possible works to empower students from underserved backgrounds to become college graduates and…