{"id":3287,"date":"2019-05-15T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2019-04-23T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:49:50","slug":"high-school-senior-aims-to-close-race-gap-at-selective-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/high-school-senior-aims-to-close-race-gap-at-selective-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Senior Aims to Close Race Gap at Selective Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy of The Champion Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Campus visits can often seem out of reach for low-income or marginalized student populations.<\/p>\n

But one high school senior has made it her mission to get students like her to see the campuses of selective universities firsthand.<\/p>\n

Leila Champion, a senior at Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School (IN), launched The Champion Project<\/a> this year. The Champion Project, which also served as her senior capstone project, aimed to show her fellow classmates that they too could go to their dream schools.<\/p>\n

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The idea stemmed from the seven weeks Champion spent at Harvard University (MA) last summer. She rarely saw students that looked like her on campus or in the tour groups. She wants to close that gap.<\/p>\n

“Since nobody else is going to do it, I’m going to do it. I’m going to be the one who shows these students this is possible. These reach schools are attainable,” Champion told her local TV news station.<\/a><\/p>\n

She solicited donations to take about 30 minority students from Indiana on a bus tour. Students visited Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia,\u00a0and the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n