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Photo Courtesy of Miranda Hope Director of the RCHS Next Step Program, Miranda Hope, (left) Jesse Palmer, (center) and Jesse’s mother, Jan Besecker(right) visit Stanford University.
for a class of 1,650 — an acceptance rate of about 9.5%. For students like Jesse, who live outside of California, that acceptance rate drops to about 5%. The price tag of the school — tuition, room, board, books, travel, expenses, all included — is up . to $47,000/year, but Stanford’s Financial Aid is among the best in the country. The average grant, per student, is $29,000 per year, bringing the cost into the price range of an in-state public college. In fact, in order to prevent students from leaving college saddled with debt, families are only expected to take out $5,500/year in loans and work-study. The University covers the rest.
Jesse is waiting to hear from a few other schools before he makes his choice about where he will be next fall. Whatever he decides, it is an extraordinary achievement for this young man to be offered a place in the Stanford Class of 2011. His acceptance is a testament to his hard work and talent, to his mother’s devotion, to the community that encourages him, and to the great work being done by the teachers, administrators, and board members of our public school system. It takes a community to get a child into Stanford, and everyone in this county should be proud.
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