Madison 365: UW PEOPLE Program Absolutely Worth It
By Miles Brown
So the next time you hear someone talk about how Milwaukee Public School (MPS) students are all bad and don’t value education, tell them about Emily, a 9th grade PEOPLE applicant from Bay View who is taking all honors and 10th grade classes and still was able to get a 3.9 GPA last semester. Tell them about Yvonne, another student and a gifted writer who applied to PEOPLE and needed to get an excuse from her teacher to come to me and finish her essay. Tell them about Raijanique, who wrote this at the end of her personal statement:
“I almost missed this opportunity. It was going to be upsetting. I came back to school to finish. I couldn’t miss this for nothing in the world. It’s too important to me.”
“I almost missed this opportunity. It was going to be upsetting. I came back to school to finish. I couldn’t miss this for nothing in the world. It’s too important to me.”