Opportunity and Achievement
Scholars Program
The CDI Scholars Program provides comprehensive college counseling, targeted tutoring, test preparation, study skills, leadership training, and ongoing support, beginning in 10th grade and continuing through successful college graduation. Services include:
• Weekly standardized test preparation
• Weekly study skills workshops
• Participation in cultural and service events
• Curriculum planning
• Meetings with college representatives
• Targeted visits to college campuses
• Testing and college application fee support
• Creation of tailored college lists developed with students/families
• College application assistance
• Writing workshops and assistance with college essays
• Assistance applying for and negotiating financial aid
• Ongoing support and leadership training throughout college
• Alumni networking and counseling
Eligibility
To be eligible to become a CDI Scholar, students must meet the following criteria:
• Minimum 2.6 GPA
• Want to attend a four year college/university
• Be FARMS Eligible
• Must attend one of the following high schools: Albert Einstein High School, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, John F. Kennedy High School, Montgomery Blair High School, Paint Branch High School, Springbrook High School, Walter Johnson High School, Wheaton High School
Why Our Work Matters
According to the Pell Institute, only 16-percent of first-generation-to-college students from low-income households graduate from college within six years. For CDI Scholars in this same demographic, 89-percent graduate from college. The results achieved are the result of a strategy that has been cultivated over the past 15 years but rests on a bedrock principle that potential cannot turn into opportunity without support, and without support, opportunity cannot turn into success. Since 2005 Collegiate Directions, Inc. has worked to reduce the achievement and opportunity gap for low-income, first-generation-to-college students with a series of programs designed to help them maximize their potential and ensure they are equipped with the academic, financial, and social-emotional tools necessary to successfully graduate from college and enter prepared into the world of work.
Become A CDI Scholar
Click the button below to apply to the CDI Scholars Program.
