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UNIVERSITY of NEW HAMPSHIRE UPWARD BOUND |
There are several ways in which students can be referred to Upward Bound. They are the following:
- Students may be referred by teachers or counselors in target schools
- Students may be referred by interested individuals in the community, including a student's parents
- Students may be referred by students already in the program
- Students may self-refer directly to the program
By far, the majority of referrals come from teachers and guidance counselors.
If you would like to make a referral to Upward Bound, the following is designed to explain our criteria for choosing students.
- Students must attend one of our target schools (Farmington, Spaulding, Somersworth, Manchester Central, Manchester Memorial, or Manchester West).
- Students must be in 9th or 10th grade (the majority are freshmen or sophomores).
- Students must be from either low-income homes or from families where neither parent has graduated from a four-year college. (Two-thirds of our students must meet both criteria; one-third may meet one or the other but not both.)
- Students must be able to demonstrate that they have the ability and the desire to go on to college.
- Students must have some need for Upward Bound and the services it provides; that need may be academic, social, economic or a mixture of all three.
(Keep in mind that low-income is not the same as poverty. The term 'low-income family' designates a family whose collective income is within 1.5 times the poverty guidelines for a family its size. In other words, a family of four could be low-income so long as its taxable income in for the previous tax year was not more the amount listed for a family of four on the income table below. Our advice is to refer a student if you think he or she might meet the above standards and let Upward Bound make the determination.
Click here to see table with income guidelines:
Income Table
You may refer the student directly to us by phone or e-mail or you may give the student's name to the guidance secretary in the student's school. Please indicate his or her year of graduation, a few of your reasons for making this reference, and a phone number or e-mail address where we can reach you if we need more information.Click here to e-mail Upward Bound about a student:
Referring a Student
Thank you for caring enough to consider referring students to Upward Bound. If they attend they will know that you played a major role in contributing to their future success!
Upward Bound is College Bound.