The Onsite College Admissions Forum
The 5th Annual Onsite College Admissions Forum
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The UIC Forum
725 W. Roosevelt Road
Thank you to all of our generous sponsors for supporting the dreams of Chicago's college-bound youth!
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Options and Opportunities: A National College Admissions Forum
- A list of colleges and universities from our upcoming 5th Annual Onsite this coming October 2011.
- For more information about the Onsite itself please scroll down or click on the photo below, to view the entire photo gallery of the students interviews.
Results from the 4th Annual Onsite Admmissions Forum can be viewed by clicking here.
- The day after our 4th Annual Onsite, we held our first Breakfast Symposium in order to facilitate a discussion about college access and opportunity among the college admissions community.
The Chicago Scholars Onsite is designed to ensure that scholars are matched with a set of good-fit college options by jumpstarting the college admissions process. Scholars participating in the Onsite submit completed college applications by September of their senior year of high school. Before the first school bell rings, our seniors have already researched and applied to 5 colleges of their choice!
Our programming accelerates the application cycle by having summer college application preparatory workshops which puts scholars ahead of traditional admission cycles and the college application process. This frees them up to concentrate on their academics and relieves the anxiety about the college admission process that most high school seniors and their families feel.
We are committed to having scholars receive as many options as possible by gaining admissions and scholarships from prestigious national universities.
2010 Onsite Facts:
- Scholars self-select 5 "good-fit" colleges to interview with
- 88 high schools in Chicago participated at the 4th Annual Onsite
- 330+ scholars from a majority of Chicago's neighborhoods attended
- 50% of participating students are the first in their families to go to college
- Over $3.5 million of financial assistance is estimated to be awarded
Community Partners that Participated at the 4th Annual Onsite:
- AVID Program
- Chicago Scholars
- Chicago Urban League
- CircEsteem
- College Bound Opportunities
- Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund
- Deloitte Scholars
- International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Kappa Leadership Institute - Chicago
- LINK Unlimited
- University of Illinois - CHANCE Learning Center
- US Empowered
- World Sport Chicago