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April 2, 2012Detroit Free Press article highlights WSU's K.A.L.E.S ACT prep program
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High School students are preparing to take the ACT through Wayne State University’s K.A.L.E.S. Preparatory Institute, a 10-week program designed to improve the community and show high-schoolers what college is like. The program is showing results – officials can point to students who entered the program with a score of 12 and have already improved to an 18. A score of 21 on the ACT is generally considered the baseline for getting into college, according to Monica Davie, WSU's associate director of undergraduate admissions, who also runs K.A.L.E.S. About 85 percent of the high-schoolers in the program apply to WSU and about 40 percent of those attend WSU, Davie said. The students spend most of the day doing intensive ACT prep work -- the course can cost more than $1,000 if taken privately. WSU provides course material, notebooks, a bus pass to get to campus and a lunch voucher. The students also spend an hour or two in character development, hearing from community members and business leaders about how to be successful in life.
High School students are preparing to take the ACT through Wayne State University’s K.A.L.E.S. Preparatory Institute, a 10-week program designed to improve the community and show high-schoolers what college is like. The program is showing results – officials can point to students who entered the program with a score of 12 and have already improved to an 18. A score of 21 on the ACT is generally considered the baseline for getting into college, according to Monica Davie, WSU's associate director of undergraduate admissions, who also runs K.A.L.E.S. About 85 percent of the high-schoolers in the program apply to WSU and about 40 percent of those attend WSU, Davie said. The students spend most of the day doing intensive ACT prep work -- the course can cost more than $1,000 if taken privately. WSU provides course material, notebooks, a bus pass to get to campus and a lunch voucher. The students also spend an hour or two in character development, hearing from community members and business leaders about how to be successful in life.
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