{"id":13114,"date":"2024-04-16T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=13114"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:30:13","slug":"nj-students-receive-scholarships-for-college-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/nj-students-receive-scholarships-for-college-education\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ students receive scholarships for college education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David and Justin from North Star Academy Washington Park High School already know they are headed to University of Chicago and Amherst College with full ride scholarships. These students are recipients of the prestigious QuestBridge Scholarship which provides scholarships through a college match program to attend some of the nation\u2019s most competitive colleges. This year more than 2,242 students received scholarships through the program, including 22 from Uncommon Schools, which represents 1% of all recipients nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfiindustries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><div style=\"padding:56.49% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/935694388?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Telemundo47 NSAWPHS QuestBridge Story April 16 2024\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo47.com\/noticias\/noticias-destacados\/estudiantes-de-nj-reciben-becas-para-educacion-universitaria\/2467768\/\">Telemundo 47<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David and Justin from North Star Academy Washington Park High School already know they are headed to University of Chicago and Amherst College with full ride scholarships. These students are recipients of the prestigious QuestBridge Scholarship which provides scholarships through a college match program to attend some of the nation\u2019s most competitive colleges. This year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/nj-students-receive-scholarships-for-college-education\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":13067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newark","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NJ students receive scholarships for college education - Uncommon Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two students at North Star Academy Washington Park receive prestigious QuestBridge scholarship for college\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/nj-students-receive-scholarships-for-college-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NJ students receive scholarships for college education - 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