Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham wrote a piece on the Posse Foundation Inc., which trains promising students from public high schools to form multicultural teams for enrollment at top colleges.
Abraham spoke with the mother of a high school student who will be part of Union's Class of 2013. Union’s Posse Scholars are recruited from the Posse Foundation’s student leadership program in the Boston area.
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An ethnically diverse group, the Posse Scholars are high-achieving, highly motivated students who enhance the breadth and depth of Union’s rich educational experience.
The Boston branch of the foundation works with selective schools like Union, Hamilton College and Bryn Mawr College to recruit ethnically diverse groups of potential student leaders. The Posse Foundation runs programs based in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.
The foundation’s name was inspired by a conversation with an inner city New York City dropout who never would have left college “if I had my posse with me.”