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Monday, June 8, 2009

College program reaches out to eligible middle-schoolers


Aliha Strange, a seventh-grade aspiring novelist, gathered brochures and chatted up college recruiters from Seattle University, Eastern Washington University and University of Washington on Saturday morning. If she seemed young to be thinking about college, she didn't show it.

"I'm really into going to college," she said at the College Bound Scholarship information session. "I'm trying to find the right fit."

Her mother, Sunda Strange, said, "Moneywise, I don't have a lot to offer her" for college, but the state scholarship program has given them both hope.

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Posted by Claudia Rowe @ Equal Voice For Families at 12:56 PM

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