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On April 20th, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selected Dos Pueblos High School senior Kathy Ramirez-Gijon as a recipient of its prestigious Gates Scholarship. Her selection as a Gates Scholar is the culmination of a whirlwind college-admissions season for Ramirez-Gijon, who in 2019 was chosen as one of ten students included in the inaugural [...]

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SOURCE: Molly Wetta for  City of Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) activated more than 6,000 Student Success Library Cards for students of Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) this week. Click to view larger SBPL has been working with SBUSD for several months to create a simple, straightforward way for students to access [...]

Source: Cassie Lancaster, Mission Scholars   As the coronavirus upends our daily lives, weighs down our health-care system, and threatens our most vulnerable citizens, the subject of college admissions might seem trivial. We all have other things to think about right now. Yet, as director of a college admissions-based nonprofit and a private college counselor, I have [...]