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How YES Prep Southwest Ensures that Students are Prepared for College Graduation

June 02, 2011 by Allison Mattingly

People are the source of our strength. This mantra has been a part of the YES Prep Core Values for as long as I have been with YES Prep (which in teacher years is at least 47). It took me until this year and working so closely with the College Initiatives team at YES Prep Southwest that I realized why this is the foundation of our organization.

• Dr. Ayana Allen—Director of College Counseling, mentor, teacher, and friend balances my every need to check something off of a To-Do list with her emotional strength and vision.
• Eric Estelle—College Counselor, the captain, tough cookie, cool as a cucumber, powerhouse brings humor and calm to my frenzied storm.
• Sharon Desrosiers—School Mama, copy machine whisperer, data entry czar, and partner in all things task related brings

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Senior Signing Day Should Be A National Holiday

May 02, 2011 by Mark DiBella

I have decided to make it official. Senior Signing Day is now a national holiday. I haven’t actually gotten this approved by anyone but I have emailed the President, so I’ll let you know when I find out more. Given that I look forward to SSD more than my own birthday, I’ve decided it needs to take its place as a fully recognized holiday. In fact, as I was heading to SSD on Friday, I started making a list of my favorite days every year. It was crazy to realize that next to Christmas and Thanksgiving, SSD is arguably my favorite day of the year. Of course, the last day of school is a close 4th.

For those of you that have never attended a Senior Signing Day, you should put next year's event on your calendar.  Senior Signing Day started as a way to honor our graduating seniors for the

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Three YES Prep Students Earn Assistance League of Houston Scholarships

April 26, 2011 by Donald Kamentz

A Monday morning for the seniors and college counselors in the last weeks of April and heading into May can bring stress.  This was not the case for three YES Prep Southeast seniors who were able to sneak away from campus for a few hours for a great reason – to be honored by the Assistance League of Houston as scholarship recipients for the 2011 school year.

YES Prep and ALH began their partnership three years ago and have awarded over $94,000 to 76 graduating seniors from YES Prep. Representing 18 total scholarship recipients awarded between $1,000-$2,000 this year, Olga Hernandez, Veronica Martinez and Ulises Mercado attended the yearly ALH Scholarship Breakfast to receive this great honor and reward of their hard work.

Below is a little more information about each of the

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YES Prep Southeast Senior Awarded Two Major Scholarships

April 21, 2011 by Tenesha Villanueva

YES Prep Southeast is pleased to announce that Class of 2011 senior, Victoria Gonzalez, was recently named a Dell Scholar and Terry Foundation Scholar! 

The Dell Scholars Program, supported by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, is a unique scholarship and college persistence program that looks beyond academic performance to recognize students on the basis of individuality, unique experiences, willingness to work hard and ability to overcome obstacles and adverse circumstances. In addition to providing financial assistance, the Dell Scholars Program is designed to support students in achieving success through college graduation.   

Each Dell Scholar receives a computer, printer and $20,000 to be used for tuition, fees, books, and room and board over the course of six years. The

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Former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales to Speak at Senior Signing Day

April 12, 2011 by Chris Barbic

We just confirmed that Alberto Gonzales will be delivering this year’s keynote remarks to our seniors at our Senior Signing Day Celebration being held at Rice University’s Tudor Field House on Friday, April 29, 2011. This year promises to be a great one . . . we will have THREE classes of seniors announcing their college plans.

Alberto Gonzalez is a native Houstonian who grew up poor on the Northside, graduated from Rice University, and went on to hold a cabinet level position in President’s Bush’s (43rd) Adminsitration. He will continue the great tradition we established last year in having Education Secretary Arne Duncan as our first-ever SSD speaker. One side note is that General Gonzales actually has spoken and addressed the seniors this past fall during the Senior Summit event

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