Boston University Posse Scholar: We Are Here for Each Other

Jessica Palacios, of Marietta, Georgia, has saved a text message on her cell phone from a 14-year-old family friend back home. The message says, Im proud of you. I look up to you, says Palacios (CAS12), sweeping her long brown hair from her glasses. It gives me the motivation. I do not want to ruin. I remember when I look up to a cousin and then she got pregnant, and I was like, Oh, theres nothing to see more. In my family, theres this tendency that women become pregnant. I feel likeIn the beginning of a new pattern. My younger sister is doing really well in school, and I would not let them down. I need to study harder. She is one of 12 Atlanta-bred freshman - 9 African-Americans, two Hispanics and one white - who were from the BU Posse Foundation, a nonprofit national scholarship program that trains and groups of recruits led talented and motivated urban students - in the Generally from the public schools - for life on a university campus. The program is intended to helptraditionally underrepresented groups of students succeed in college, and thus cultivate a new generation of urban leaders. And from the perspective of the BU and the 31 other colleges and universities that have joined the program, Posse is doing something important: it brings highly qualified students of color on campus, helping these institutions become representative of the North and South America increasingly diverse demographics. Palacios argues that a dark tracksuit bottoms and a Boston University sweatshirt, is...



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