Columbia, Brown, Howard, Barnard, Bridgewater State and UMass Amherst are just a few schools that the African-American and Latino Scholars Program (AALSP) has organized college visits to in the last few years.
For many years now, AALSP has been organizing visits to college campuses across the East Coast, such as Friday, Oct. 17, when the program visited Brown University, or last year when they visited Howard University in Washington D.C. On these tours, students get the chance to fully immerse themselves in the campus and understand what they want from college.
For senior Maliah Thompson, who has been on many college visits with the program, these visits serve as an opportunity to not only tour a campus but also visit places of cultural significance. For example, while visiting Howard last year, students had the opportunity to visit the African American History Museum in Washington…