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NEW YORK’S PRIVATE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Other Non-state or Non-Federally funded Access and Opportunity ProGrams The listing of programs below is a sample of programs at independent colleges and universities in New York that provide opportunities for access to higher education for students who have demonstrated high potential for a successful college experience but who may be from lower income circumstances and attending lower achieving high schools. Many of the programs in this listing seek students who fall just outside the qualifying criteria for the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP), a program, funded jointly by New York State and a number of independent colleges and universities in the state, that helps provide a broad range of services to students who would otherwise be unable to attend a postsecondary institution. Other programs in the listing below are designed to offer academic or personal support to help students acclimate to college life, or to increase access to higher education for students with an alternate academic profile. This list was compiled Summer 2014 from information submitted to cIcu’s Outreach Department. * Visit http://www.highered.nysed.gov/kiap/colldev/HEOP/ for additional information about HEOP. BARD COLLEGE writing, research, and computer use. Students get to know the Barnard community and learn how to ProGram: BEOP – Bard Educational Opportunity Programs, navigate the Barnard and Columbia campuses and specifically the BOP (Bard Opportunity Program) the neighborhood of Morningside Heights so that Scholarship they are ready to take full advantage of college life Description: In an effort to expand the work of the HEOP Office at when class begins in the fall. In addition, BOP Bard College (a New York state-funded grant offering Scholars benefit from the following opportunities and scholarship and academic support to low-income resources during the academic year: free tutoring and students who would not otherwise qualify for Bard study-skills workshops; academic, financial, career, general admission nor be able to afford the cost of and personal advising; use of laptop computers; attendance), the BOP Scholarship (Bard Opportunity student mentoring program; graduate placement Program) was created in 2008. Essentially a sister exam preparatory classes and graduate school program of HEOP, BOP seeks to admit high-achieving application fee waivers; a supportive community low-income scholars from all 50 states. The BEOP within the larger community of the College. Office supports these scholars through the BEOP Requirements: Be legal residents of states outside of New York; be summer (pre-freshman) academic program and 21 years of age or younger; graduate from high orientation, the BEOP Peer Mentor program, and school by June 30 of their application year; graduate supplemental advising/academic support. The with a HS grade point average of at least 3.0 or a “B”; program provides academic, social, and personal earn a maximum SAT Critical Reading score of 620 OR support to BEOP students during their time at Bard a maximum ACT English sub-score of 24; demonstrate College. significant financial need. Requirements: Students must be a US citizen or US permanent Deadlines: By January 1, apply to Barnard College by submitting resident, and graduate high school by June 30 in the the Common Application and the Barnard College year they begin at Bard College. Most BEOP scholars Supplement. See have a high school GPA of 85/100 or 3.0/4.0 or http://www.barnard.edu/admissions/apply/higher- higher, and all demonstrate significant financial need. ed-opportunity-programs/bop for more information. The chart with financial information is located at By February 16, apply for financial. See www.bard.edu/beop/eligibility/ http://barnard.edu/finaid/first-year for more Deadlines: Standard Bard Admission deadlines, January 1 for information. Common Application submission, students must Contact: 212.854.3583 submit a BEOP Supplemental Form and finalists will [email protected] submit an additional piece of writing and conduct an http://barnard.edu/admissions/apply/higher-ed- interview with BEOP and/or Admission staff opportunity-programs/bop Contact: Jane Duffstein, Director of BEOP 845.758.7491 COLGATE UNIVERSITY [email protected] www.bard.edu/beop ProGram: Office of Undergraduate Studies Scholars Description: The Office of Undergraduate Studies (OUS) serves to BARNARD COLLEGE provide educational opportunity and academic support to students who have demonstrated talent, ProGram: Barnard Opportunity Program creativity, intellect, and determination in the face of Description: The Barnard Opportunity Scholars Program (BOP) was significant challenges. OUS represents a community established to give high-achieving out-of-state of scholars. We recognize that not all high school students from disadvantaged financial backgrounds students have had access to comparable academic the support they need to help them succeed in and co-curricular resources. The program begins with college and beyond. The summer before the first year the Summer Institute, a 5-week, pre-first-year of study at Barnard, BOP Scholars participate in a summer session designed to ease the transition to residential program that strengthens skills in analysis, college and enhance the academic preparedness of Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu) 1 17 Elk Street, PO Box 7289, Albany, New York 12224 ! 518.436.4781 www.nycolleges.org ! www.cIcu.org NEW YORK’S PRIVATE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Other Non-state or Non-Federally funded Access and Opportunity ProGrams our students. It further sets the stage for students to financial assistance for a select group of Columbia take on scholarly pursuits, leadership, and College and Columbia Engineering students who community engagement during their four years at meet the eligibility requirements and demonstrate Colgate. OUS also oversee Colgate's participation in exceptional motivation and intellectual curiosity. the New York State Higher Education Opportunity These opportunity programs are designed to assist Program (HEOP), which is open to residents of New students in acclimating to college life in academic York State who meet the economic guidelines set by areas such as critical reading, formal writing and the State Education Department at the time of scientific and mathematical skills. Participants receive admission. supportive services throughout their college Requirements: Students who are accepted to OUS have achieved experience, benefiting from an array of transitional success while systematically pursuing the most programming, tutoring, skill-building seminars, demanding academic paths open to them. They have advising and mentoring programs. prevailed in the face of personal, economic, Requirements: There is no separate application to the National educational, cultural, or social challenges. Admission Opportunity Program; candidates are automatically to OUS is determined at the time of admission to considered during our admission review process. Colgate, and no separate application is necessary. Eligibility is based on economic eligibility criteria and Deadlines: Every student is considered for admission to the OUS a demonstrated need for academic support services. program. Standard admission deadlines apply: Deadlines: November 1 (Early Decision) or January 1 (Regular November 15 for Early Decision and January 15 for Decision) Regular Decision. Contact: [email protected] Contact: Frank Frey, Associate Professor of Biology and www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/asp Environmental Studies; Director of the Office of Undergraduate Studies DAEMEN COLLEGE 315.228.7375 [email protected] ProGram: Triple-A (Accelerated Academic Achievement) http://www.colgate.edu/centers-and- Description: Triple-A is an institutional program that offers institutes/center-for-learning-teaching-and- academic support for conditionally admitted research/office-of-undergraduate-studies students. Students are encouraged to enroll in the “Success in College,” a one-credit course. THE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE Requirements: Conditional admission to Daemen College, but not eligible for HEOP Program: Academic Opportunity Experience Deadlines: Rolling admissions; regular admission process Description: The Academic Opportunity Experience (AOE) Program Contact: Adriane Z. Williams, Senior Academic Advisor sponsored by The College of Saint Rose is a 716.839.8228 supportive services program designed to admit first- [email protected] time freshman undergraduate students and to provide academic support throughout their careers at the College. ProGram: Vision for Success Requirements: AEO applicants are inadmissible through the general Description: Vision is an institutional program that offers financial, admissions process, and are recommended to the academic, and personal support for conditionally AOE Office for review. admitted students who are financially or academically Deadlines: Candidates are recommended during the disadvantaged. Students receive tuition, housing, Undergraduate Admissions Office review of and/or book grants, along with mandatory tutoring. applications. The AOE admissions process occurs Requirements: Economically/academically disadvantaged, but not during the spring semester, and requires attendance eligible for NYS Arthur O. Eve HEOP support according at an information session and a personal interview. to HEOP guidelines specified by the Board of Regents. Additionally,