Approach
Upward Bound grants are results-based, with the level of success determined largely from highly-structured annual reports compared to grant objectives. The program is available to students after their eighth grade of school. Two-thirds of selected applicants must be low-income and "potential first-generation college students", with the remaining third of students meeting one of the requirements.
Most Upward Bound programs combine two approaches to student contact:
- A summer program where high school students take college prep classes and earn work experience at a college campus for six weeks.
- Weekly follow ups and possibly tutoring with students during the school year.
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