An Overview of the Admissions Process

Bridges to a Brighter Future offers an amazing opportunity to twenty-five students a year. Numerous students are qualified for the program, meaning that they meet the basic criteria: they come from a low-income family, have a B average, and a clean displinary record. Principals and guidance counselors from local school are brought to the “Bridge’s to a Brighter Future Educator Breakfast” where they are informed of the selection criteria to be passed along to classroom teachers of 9^th grade students. A teacher, a guidance counselor, or a friend who is also in the Bridges program must then nominate students in November and December. Then each nominated student is assigned a time and personally interviewed by the Bridges team and occasionally guest interviewers that are tasked to narrow it down to just twenty-five students that they believe can benefit from the program the most.  Also in the decision process they try their best to pick student’s that will fit well together and form a cohesive group. In more time I will explain these processes more in depth and share some personal student experiences, but as you can see the outcomes prove they're doing something right!

Summer Banquet

Bridges offers the opportunity for each grade to become a close knit group by

 carefully selecting students that they think will bring out the best in each other.

         

I’m working with this organization along with my fellow classmates to revamp their media usage. For part of the media presentation we will be putting together for Bridges to a Brighter Future, I will be looking closely at the admissions process.  I will be sitting in on several sessions where students are interviewed to become part of Bridge’s, interviewing current students about their admissions process and journey while in the Bridge’s program, and interviewing those who do the nominating and the choosing of students to give a comprehensive look at the admissions process.  In conjunction with the blog posts our team will be working with Bridges to update their Facebook and Twitter pages, look out for future video and audio clips coming soon!  Check out some photos below of what the Bridge's program has to offer after acceptance!