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Oregon volunteers guide students through college admissions process.
Byline: Suzanne Pardington
Oct. 28--Courtnii Lamar and Haben Mebrahtu want to go to Howard University so badly that they mailed their applications weeks before the deadline.
Don't ask them about a backup plan.
"In our minds, we're going to Howard," Lamar says.
To get there, the Grant High seniors turned to Aspire, a volunteer college advising program serving 114 high schools and more than 7,000 students in Oregon. The program has grown rapidly since it started nine years ago.
This year, it received its first infusion of state cash, which higher education leaders hope will result in more Oregon students going to college, especially those who face financial, cultural or geographic obstacles.
Lamar and Mebrahtu, both 17 and being raised by single mothers, are determined to be the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college. Mebrahtu's Ethiopian family immigrated to the United States in 1993.
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