 in upstate New York.
“I felt grateful and proud when I found out I got the Posse scholarship. At first, I couldn’t believe it, to realize how great of an opportunity I received. It meant I am closer to college, to pursuing my dreams and goals, and getting the education that my parents didn’t get the chance to have.”
Christelle Narcisse (right) celebrating her acceptance to Union College with her Summer Search mentor Pedro Suncar at a Posse event.
Posse and Summer Search both work to support and empower young people to succeed and become the leaders of tomorrow, using mentoring and peer connection. This shared mission is why Posse has been an impactful partner of Summer Search Boston for many years.
Posse believes that a small, diverse group of talented students — a Posse — carefully selected and trained, can serve as a catalyst for individual and community development. While on campus, scholars regularly check-in with their Posse mentor and meet with their group of peers.
Saria Carreto with her Centre College Posse.
The supportive “posse/group” structure has been an appealing piece of their program for many Summer Searchers. In fact, as Judy Wang from Boston Latin High School explains, it closely resembled her own Summer Search experience.
“I liked the idea of going into college with a group. My [Summer Search] mentor shared her experience of going [to college] with a group of minority students in a program, and it really gave me reassurance that this is what I wanted. When I went to Costa Rica [on a summer program with Deer Hill Expeditions], I went with a group of Summer Searchers from all over the country. I felt this bond and connection. I wanted this same feeling when I go to college. I was so immensely happy that my future would be set with an amazing group of people who are like-minded.”
Judy Wang on her Summer Search service-learning program in Costa Rica with Deer Hill.
That future will be at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where her sister is also a Posse Scholar!
As Judy mentioned, conversations with her mentor helped her decide to apply to Posse. And those conversations will continue as Summer Search Post-Secondary Program staff stay in touch, connecting at least once every quarter to provide additional support and resources for our students.
So, with an army of support behind them — from Summer Search, Posse, their families, and more — Judy, Christelle, and Saira are looking forward to what their post-secondary experiences will bring.
Saira Carreto with her fellow Posse Scholars from Chelsea High School.
“I am looking forward to studying something I love, because I’ll be in charge of what kind of career I want in the future,” Christelle shared. “[I want] a major that connects science and medicine.”
“I think college will be a period of growth since it will be in a new state and environment,” Judy reflects. “I am excited to live fully independently. I can’t wait to have opportunities to extend my range of knowledge and really step my foot into computer science.”
Saira says she can’t wait to meet new people and making the most of Centre College’s highly-ranked study abroad program.
“Centre College is in Kentucky, so I know I will have the opportunity to interact and build friendships with people who have different backgrounds compared to my own. Besides the social aspect of college, I know for sure I want to study abroad at least once. I love learning about different cultures, so I will definitely take advantage of the opportunity.”
Summer Search is truly grateful to partner with organizations like the Posse Foundation to support these amazing young people. We wish all of our post-secondary-bound Summer Searchers good luck on the next steps in their journeys!
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Hi. I heard about the Posse Scholarship recently. Would you please tell me if University of California at Berkeley is one of your partner universities?
Thank you!
Hi, yes UC Berkeley is a Posse partner, as you can see here:I died last week, grateful, clutching a Double Delight rose, two days before I turned 83 — grateful for the years, and that death had come, finally, and harvested me like corn, and that one of my adopted children had come to watch me die.
I am writing this in a cramped little room of white laminate prison walls that feel as though they are pressing in, under way too-bright fluorescent lights, pressing down. The floor under my feet appears to be white tile, or some kind of white laminate.
Here on the way to Heaven or Hell, they segregate us in little rooms so we don’t get assigned to a better or worse afterlife by cheating: looking into someone else’s story of his life.
The entry process, so far, feels like being assigned to seventh-grade study hall, with the bad boys.
I am waiting for the Angels to deliver me my test.
That’s right: They give you a test in the afterlife, to determine which Section you will belong to.
And woe betide you if you do not capitalize Angels, or Section.
What kind of an afterlife is this?
Will the rules, for eternity, be just as pointless, niggling and dictatorial as they were on Earth? Why? Why should it be this way?
Oops! Here comes my a Angel.
Bad-looking moth- O my God, it’s Miss xxxxxxxx from seventh-grade study hall.
She got to be an angel? Angel?
But she was a … Sorry! Sorry!
Where did she … go? Floated in and dropped the test on my desk and disappeared.
OK. Let’s do it. I was always good at standardized tests.
A: Depends on what you call impure. I didn’t think so at the time.
Q: Did you ever act upon your impure thoughts?
A. Depends on what you mean by act.
Q: Did you sluff off, neglectfully or willfully violate or disregard orders from your superiors?
A: Depends on what you mean by superiors.
Q: Did you overindulge, or indulge at all, in spirituous liquors or other intoxicants?
A. Depends on what you mean by Yes.
A: It alleviated my distress for a short time, but probably exacerbated it in the long run.
Q: So you know what exacerbate means?
A: Of course I do. I was a newspaper editor.
Q: You were a newspaper editor?
A: I just told you that.
Q: What is, or was, a newspaper?

Q: I’m sorry, Sir. I’m a new arrival here. This is the first test I’ve administerated.
A: Administrated, not administerated. Cheezus H My golly, can’t you spell in Heaven?
Q: Spelling doesn’t count in Heaven.
A: You said it counted on the test.
Q: Oh dear, oh dear. You won’t turn me in, will you?
A: Turn you in? To who? Correctly, whom? For what?
Q: Sssssshhh … Please, Sir, He hears everything.
Q: Not he, Sir, He.
A: Jesus Christ, just like in the United States. Get me out of here. Is there a test for Hell?
Q: Yes, there is, Sir, and that man whose name you mentioned administerates administrates it.
A: Jesus is in Hell?
A: And all the popes, too?
Q: Most of them.
 Send me down there.
A: Who are the powers that be?
Q: Why … the powers who took over Heaven.
A: Screw ‘em. Send me to Hell.
Q: But why, Sir?
A: Because I want to shake Jesus by the hand, have a few words with the popes, and meet Mark Twain.
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