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About Us
CollegePath LA is a community organization of volunteers who help public high school students explore careers, apply to college and thrive once they get there. We have developed a model project at John Marshall High School, an urban school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. We share our know-how and curricula with other schools and organizations. |
News & Events
CollegePath LA has a new project: Talking Careers. It’s a collection of short video interviews with people who answer questions about their professional lives and how they found them. Listeners “meet” these people and hear their stories. The conversations are chatty, inspirational, and packed with practical advice. more... |
Alumni
Luana Rodriguez is a John Marshall High School alumna, Class of 2020, who is attending UCLA. She is currently a junior, but is planning to graduate a year early. Last summer, she volunteered as a law clerk at Public Counsel, the nation’s largest provider of free legal services for clients who cannot afford to pay. She was one of 11 interns who worked in the Opportunity...more... |
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Plaudits
On September 5, 2020, Dr. Yasmin Delahoussaye, beginning a Zoom session for mentors training to assist students with their college application essays, showed a short video. The film tells the story of a boy on a beach throwing washed up starfish into an ocean. Nearby, a puzzled man tells the boy his efforts won’t make much of a difference to the multitudes of stranded sea stars. Undeterred, the boy picks up another starfish, flings it into the ocean, and patiently tells the man: “It made a difference to that one!” more...
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Volunteer Opportunities
Hallelujah! The Los Angeles Unified School District has given CollegePath LA volunteers permission to resume working with students in person.
We will help John Marshall High School students prepare their college application essays every Tuesday beginning October 4 and ending November 15, 2022. We are calling this program "CPLA Tuesdays." Each Tuesday, we will hold two separate sessions. Session 1: 12:00 pm -1:00 pm Session 2: 2:45 pm - 4:30 pm Please contact Susan Philips if you have any questions or would like to volunteer. |