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Testimony by Isabella, Student from Armory College Prep Program
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Isabella, a student from the Armory College Prep Program, testifies about the importance of nonprofit organizations in supporting youth and students from low-income backgrounds in their pursuit of higher education. She shares her personal experience of how the program has helped her gain confidence and motivation to apply to top universities.
- The program provided networking opportunities, allowing Isabella to meet with a Columbia admissions officer and gain valuable insights into the admissions process.
- Being part of the program surrounded Isabella with like-minded peers, motivating her to perform better academically.
- Isabella emphasizes that increased funding for such nonprofits would provide more students with similar opportunities and the necessary support to succeed.
Isabella
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Isabella, and I'm currently a student who's part of the Armory College Prep Program, which aims to support students who plan on going to college as their post secondary path.
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And firstly, thank you so much for the opportunity today to speak to you about the fundamental role that nonprofits play in ensuring the success and development of the youth and especially students in our communities.
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As a person of color who grew up in the projects and is from a low income household, going to college was never really in the picture for me, I thought it was too difficult, and I thought it was way too expensive.
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But through the networking opportunities that have been granted to me through this program, I was able to meet a Columbia admissions officer, and I was able to ask her all these burning questions I had about the admissions process, and I truly felt that I could have a chance to go to Columbia, one of the top universities in in the country, and I felt like I I felt much more confident in my abilities, which is something I wouldn't have the opportunity to do if I wasn't part of ACP or if I wasn't part of a nonprofit in in general.
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And I feel like the people that I meet in that I meet and the people that I'm around in those programs also have the similar a similar goal as me, which really just motivates me all the time to do better, to perform better, and to ultimately get to a good school, all those names on on the on the wall of these people who went to Yale, to Babson, to Brandeis, and that really motivates me.
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And through nonprofits that are geared towards our youth, students are truly able to recognize their their potential and give their best performance, which is always ideal in everything.
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And I believe that with more funding, that provides students with more opportunity to experience what I what I have, and also for them to experience an an environment that provides them with the unconditional support that is truly necessary in able to succeed and that's it.
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Thank you so much.