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Towards the end of my junior year, the Uptown Educational Foundation helped me with multiple steps I had to take in order to get a head start: take the SATs, complete the Common App, SUNY and CUNY App, and the FAFSA. Not only did Th Foundation fund SAT prep for me and several other students, they also paid the fees for us to take the test a second time to improve our scores. And that's exactly what happened to me. My score increased by eighty points, and made all the difference; it placed me in a great position for all my schools. We also all met frequently after school to work on applications and sometimes with the help of our mentor, "Aunt Jackie."
She and I had meaningful conversations and she was more than willing to offer optimal advice on narrowing my college list, editing my resume, and completing a brag sheet. As if the UEF wasn’t generous enough already, I and other students were awarded a $1,000 scholarship to aid our college expenses. To put it simply, the UEF created a sense of solace and balance in my personal and academic life. This support system provided the help I could not have received anywhere else, and I thank Mr.Murphy and the Foundation for that to this day.