by Annie Brennan | Mar 13, 2026
When Kristina Dooley was a senior at Euclid High School, the college-going rate at her school hovered around 50%. As a first-generation student from a single-parent, Pell-eligible household, Kristina didn’t have the roadmap to navigate the...
by Annie Brennan | Feb 26, 2026
For Daryl Beville, confidence didn’t come from having all the answers early – it came from having the right people around her while she figured them out. A graduate of Cleveland School of the Arts, Daryl joined College Now’s Top...
by Maeve Hackman | Feb 10, 2026
Derrick Johnson’s path to a career in professional baseball is a powerful example of how support can ripple across generations. As a student at John Hay School of Science and Medicine in Cleveland, Derrick didn’t have to search for guidance — he...
by Annie Brennan | Jan 22, 2026
When Janine Carter graduated from Cleveland’s Martin Luther King High School in 2001, college felt both exciting and intimidating. Like many students, she had big ambitions but plenty of unanswered questions. She found clarity through the Cleveland Scholarship...
by Alison Bib-Carson | Dec 18, 2025
Chris Rodriguez’s journey is a powerful example of what sustained advising, mentorship and access to opportunity can make possible. From graduating high school in the early days of covid, the pandemic wasn’t the only uncertainty Chris was navigating. A 2020 graduate...
