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Overview of the Upward Bound Program
A federally funded program, Upward Bound makes educational opportunities available to high school students who come from low-income families and/or are first in their family to go to college or
is disabled and neither parent has a degree from a four year
institution. The LaGuardia Community College/Vassar College (LAGCC/VC) Upward Bound Program recruits students from six high schools in Queens,
NY,
and consists of two major components: The Academic Year Curriculum at LaGuardia Community College and the Summer Residential Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
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