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Blog Archive: Vermont Spotlights
When college-bound Rhiana Carr was starting her final year at Fair Haven Union High School and thinking about next steps, the top-ranked college just 18 miles down the road from her home in Orwell wasn鈥檛 initially on her application list. Even though Middlebury College was very familiar to her鈥攇iven鈥
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Because of COVID-19, 18-year-old Sophia Desrochers wasn鈥檛 able to walk across the stage at a traditional high school graduation, and she wasn鈥檛 able to attend her senior prom. In fact, she wasn鈥檛 even able to visit the college she chose to attend, having to rely instead on a description of the鈥
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When Mimi Duong鈥檚 parents emigrated from war-torn and politically tense Vietnam in the 1980s, they wanted more opportunities and a safe place for their children to grow up. They ended up in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where they started a successful business and sent all four of their children to鈥
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Elizabeth 鈥淟izzie鈥 Brown just graduated from Craftsbury Academy last week. Lizzie joined the GEAR UP program later on in high school but has taken advantage of the program as a resource to help her finalize the details of her college plans and learn how to pay for college. She persisted through the鈥
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