Join Rewarding Potential Scholarship for a screening of Personal Statement and a conversation about the challenges faced by students in our own community to attend college

Three seniors at Brooklyn area high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they aren’t even sure they will make it there themselves. PERSONAL STATEMENT is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows Karoline, Christine and Enoch through their senior year as they work tirelessly as peer college counselors to realize better futures for themselves and their peers. They struggle and they stumble, but refuse to succumb to the barriers that prevent so many low-income students from attending and graduating from college.

College access is one of the dominant civil rights issues of our time. Teenagers across the United States want all that a higher education promises: the possibility of prospering, moving beyond the survival mode that is all they have ever known, and participating in the American Dream. But many of them can’t get there, and as a result, income inequality persists. People from low-income backgrounds are increasingly excluded from higher education.

Rewarding Potential Scholarship is a community-funded effort that helps Fox Lane High School students overcome financial barriers and realize their hopes and dreams of attending college. Since 2015, we have provided 42 four-year scholarships to outstanding Fox Lane seniors with identified high financial need who might not have otherwise been able to attend college.

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