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Chase Kuhleman, a senior at Cornell University in New York, is majoring in applied economics and management. He plans to apply to Cornell’s law school next year.
His post-high school education started online at Delaware County Community College, just outside of Philadelphia. He achieved a 4.0 GPA after his first semester and was recruited to join the Transfer Scholars Network, a program that helps students get into top-tier schools. Since the program’s debut in 2021, 32 students have been accepted by 16 partner schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, and Princeton. Some 600 students have been accepted and mentored by the network.
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To help more people obtain a four-year degree, one initiative started with a simple idea: What if you make it easier for top community college students to connect with selective schools?
The partner institutions often have more resources to help support students complete a four-year degree – something fewer than 20% of community college transfers achieve within six years, according to new federal data.
Mr. Kuhleman felt imposter syndrome at the Ivy League school at times, but he doesn’t like to dwell on the past. “I can definitely say sometimes I used to think, you know, do I really belong here?” he says. “But I also sit and think, I’m just glad to be here. I’m very fortunate to have found my way to Cornell.”
Subin Kim was headed to college at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona straight out of high school – until the United States Army came calling.
As a soldier, he did a tour in his native country of South Korea and back in the U.S. at Fort Drum in New York. After the Army, he settled in Virginia, where his wife is from, and enrolled in Northern Virginia Community College.
He always planned to pursue a college education, but he says what happened next was not what he expected: He ended up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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To help more people obtain a four-year degree, one initiative started with a simple idea: What if you make it easier for top community college students to connect with selective schools?
Mr. Kim is one of 32 community college students who have successfully transferred to some of the most selective U.S. colleges and universities through the Transfer Scholars Network. Launched in 2021, the TSN offers a path to top-tier schools such as MIT, Yale, and Princeton. These colleges and universities often have more resources to help support students complete a four-year degree – something fewer than 20% of community college transfers achieve within 6 years, according to new federal data.
“We did research back in 2018 that showed there were 50,000 community college students with at least a 3.5 GPA that would be competitive for admission at [selective] schools …