By Rebecca Zeigler Mano | Director, Education Matters
USAP Zambia began in April with a cohort of 15 students in their final year of high school applying for 2018 admission. Coordinator Jessica Clarkson put together a selection committee that chose the first cohort from a competitive field of applicants. Parallel to their Zimbabwean counterparts, they went thorugh an SAT crash course in April and wrote their SAT exam in May.
August brought much excitement on both sides of the border as the 15 Zambian students boarded a bus together with two coordinators to come to Harare for the USAP Application Bootcamp. Sadly, four of the students who are refugees resident in Zambia, were denied entrance into Zimbabwe at the border and had to turn back. The 11 continued with the coordinators and joined the 42 Zimbabwean USAPers for a fantastic week of exchange, writing and working through the process of college applications, all on banks of beautiful Lake Chivero.
These same Zambian USAPers will be writing the SAT this Saturday, October 7. We wish them all the best of luck!
USAP Uganda and USAP Malawi have been organizing registration and outreach to select their first cohorts. More on that effort in our next report! Thank you for supporting the expansion of USAP to bring college access to high-achieving, low-income students!
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