Jun 18, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore Ebony Davis has always loved reading. Her love of the written word started early and continues today with her book club friends in Chicago. But it was the syllabus from her Rainier Scholars literature classes some fifteen years ago that framed much of...
Jun 18, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore When Paloma Contreras thinks back to her time in the rigorous 14-month Academic Enrichment Phase of Rainier Scholars, she remembers feeling like a kid in a candy shop. She was motivated and loved learning, so for her, being in Rainier Scholars was a...
Jun 18, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore Danait Weldeselase Yemane is grateful she has three grandmothers.They are: her father’s mom, Letemichael, and her mother’s mom Letegergish, from Asmara, Eritrea, and a woman named Carol, from Seattle, Washington. Carol...
Jun 4, 2020 | Community Stories, News
By Derek Rogers, Director of College Counseling Like most aspects of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, the college admission landscape has seen many changes in these last few months and its future is still unfolding. Whether it’s shifts in testing policy or...
May 21, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore Jimena Diaz Leiva dreamt of going to the Amazon rainforest since she was in second grade. That year, her class made dioramas of rainforest animals and had discussions about deforestation, and saving the rainforest. The project culminated in a visit to...
May 13, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore As for most of us, the path for Leo Rozal begins with his parents. Lachmi and Leonardo Rozal are immigrants from the Philippines who came to America knowing it would be important for their son to get a good education. What they did not know was the best...
May 13, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore Dawit Workie was a rugby player – a very good rugby player. Both in his senior years at Saint Michael’s University School, a K-12 boarding school in Victoria, British Columbia, and at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dawit was voted the...
Apr 24, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore There was a seminal moment early on in Sallie Lau’s time with Rainier Scholars. It was during the Academic Enrichment Phase of the program and her English Literature instructor, Ms, Mikolasy, was teaching the Jane Schaffer Paragraph Structure (a...
