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Stories and insights on excellent education.
Stories and insights on excellent education.
Success Academy – January 24, 2020
Most people don’t often get the chance to feel like a celebrity — but when Success Academy graduates return to their old high school, they get a red-carpet welcome. In this year’s annual alumni reunion, returning SA scholars found a roomful of old friends and former teachers waiting with open arms, lots of questions, and phones at the ready for selfies.
Graduates munched on pizza and basked in the spotlight while seniors — whose college acceptances are rolling in — peppered them with questions about life on campus. How long did it take you to adjust to a new routine? What’s the social life like in college? How do you stay healthy mentally? In between sharing personal stories about new jobs — Shane’s doggy daycare gig has been great, even though it means being at work at 5:30am! — and the allure of an active social life — Ananda was just elected to the executive board of her swing club — our college freshmen and sophomores shared some pearls of wisdom that made us proud.
While hanging out with old friends was the true highlight of the evening, seniors seemed to appreciate the advice. As current SA senior Jahniya Kilgore said, “My main goal in college is to keep my grades up, so it’s helpful to hear how all these Success kids manage their time and their classes to keep focused.”
The Class of 2024 will be able to put the advice to good use in just a few months. So far, almost half have earned acceptances, some of them to selective schools like Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Albany, Tufts University, Temple University, Northwestern, Yale, Cornell, Wake Forest, and University of Chicago.
Subjects: Alumni, Alumni Association, Class of 2024, College Ac