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Gear up! prepares Montana 7th and 8th grade students for early college and career awareness; financial aid awareness and planning; and improved academic support and vigor.

Thanks to Montana’s GEAR UP program, Lincoln High School valedictorian Patricia Korman knows where she will go to college and has the funding she needs to do so.

Since seventh grade, Korman and her fellow students at Lincoln have been visiting Montana college campuses as part of the Montana Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.

“They gave us (the school) money to visit all the colleges (in Montana),” she said. “It gives students a feel for where they want to go.”

By MARGA LINCOLN IR Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/05/18/neighbors_top/000gear.txt

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About the Program

GEAR UP is a federally funded program. Montana’s program operates out of the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education. This year the program’s serving 25 Montana middle schools and their 24 receiving high schools. It provides services for 1,600 students in seventh and eighth grades. Next year the program will serve seventh, eighth and ninth graders at these schools.

To learn more about the program visit http://www.gearup.montana.edu.

GEAR UP’s 2005-2006 annual summary reports that of the 2005 graduates in the program, 85 percent were pursuing post-secondary education.

Also 92 percent of the seventh graders and their parents in the program reported they believe the students will pursue post-secondary graduation.

The program’s three goals are: early college and career awareness; financial aid awareness and planning; and improved academic support and vigor.

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