Seniors Nathan Cobbs and DJ Okuleye have have been awarded the acclaimed Posse Scholarship for the University of Rochester and the University of Wisconsin-Madison respectively. This scholarship includes a four-year full-tuition scholarship. For the last half dozen years, a number of Washington Latin students have been awarded this scholarship including Fariss Nabih, to Bucknell and Anaka Osborne to Pepperdine University in 2012. In 2013, Desmond Miller earned a Posse Scholarship to Lafayette College. In 2015, Olivia Boyd earned a Posse Scholarship to Lafayette College, and Maddie Galvez earned on to Bucknell University. In 2016, Conor Moore earned a Posse Scholarship to Bucknell, and in 2017 Serena Jones earned one to Bucknell. Alex Hagan also earned a scholarship that year to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Last year Isaiah Smith earned a scholarship to the University of Rochester. This program allows 57 colleges to choose one or more major U.S. cities in which to offer full-tuition scholarships to 10 students per year. By bringing a “posse” of students in together each year through this program, these colleges hope to improve their overall retention and persistence rates as well as to increase diversity on their campuses. The five schools affiliated with Washington, D.C. are Bucknell (PA), Lafayette College (PA), University of the South-Sewanee (TN), University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Rochester (NY). You can find more information at www.possefoundation.org
