OUR STUDENTS

During the 2008-09 school year, College Match will comprehensive college access services to 140 low-income students in nine Los Angeles inner-city public schools. Our youngsters are students at Jordan High School, The Gertz-Ressler and Bill Ouchi College Ready Academies and Animo Inglewood High School in South Los Angeles, at Bell High School and Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, and at Franklin High School and the LA Leadership Academy in Northeast Los Angeles, and at the Environmental High School in South Bay.Approximately 76% of our students are Latino, 10% are African-American; 14% are Vietnamese, Filipino or other Asian-Americans. 67% of our students are female.

The Voices of College Match Applicants:
A Sampling of Our Students’ Views

"My goal in life is to become an oncologist and find a cure for cancer….Cancer has affected my family. Because of this, I would like to help out in the
effort to find a cure. To some people this may be an unattainable goal, but I feel as though I can do anything I set my mind to, as my mother has taught me."

One student said, "Graduating from high school would be a major goal for me since I would be the first one in my family to graduate from high school. I would also be a positive role model for my younger sisters to follow my steps. My second goal is to attend college. College would be one of the final steps to be well educated and have a good living, which is my so called ‘American Dream’. I think education is the key to success and I want all my family to see that in me. My dream is to get my family out of poverty."

One Latina girl wrote, "Stereotyping has been around for a very extensive amount of time…Many classify Latin women as the lowest class because all they do is clean the house and get pregnant….My generation of Latinos is going to change the way they think of us. We are going to succeed in life. We are going to make the world a better place where Latinos have more opportunities. We are tired of everyone seeing us as an embarrassment to the United States. But all of this is going to change. We are going to … start living a different more successful life."

A young man diagnosed with leukemia said: "I am currently in remission and have been for almost two years now. I just think of this (illness) as an obstacle in my life that I have passed, and the only thing it has done is make me stronger…. I am looking forward to this program helping me to be able to help other kids that are going through what I went through."

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