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Educational Talent Search program opens college doors to inner-city youth

Amy Gage
May 1, 2003

"Many inner-city junior-high and high-school kids lack the resources to go to college and don't even apply," says a recent article in the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune, written by incoming first-year student Cassie Limpert. But through the college preparatory program Educational Talent Search, part of the federally funded TRiO program, St. Olaf College is trying to change that reality by helping students see higher education as a realistic goal.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.