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Former AVID student says how AVID has helped her in college.
A
Hello
and
welcome
to
avid
achievers-
I
am
your
host
dot
areta
coordinator
of
avid
this
season
on
avid
achievers.
We
will
be
joined
by
avid
teachers
from
across
the
county,
who
will
be
interviewing
their
former
avid
students
in
their
college
settings.
These
interviews
will
help
us
to
learn
more
about
local
colleges
and
see
what
skills
these
avid
students
from
aacps
are
putting
to
use
in
the
college
setting.
We
hope
you
enjoy
these
interviews.
B
C
Okay,
awesome
hi,
so
yeah,
I'm
alexis.
I
am
a
senior
at
salisbury
university
salisbury.
Is
it's
a
smaller
school
in
the
eastern
shore
of
maryland?
We
are
a
suburban
campus
on
about
200
acres.
I
really
love
the
size
of
it.
Salisbury
is
kind
of
that
cute
little
like
nice,
small
school
makes
it
feel
like
you're,
not
just
another
face.
We
have
45
distinct
majors
across
23
fields
of
study.
C
So
there's
a
lot
to
get
into
here.
Acceptance
rate
we're
looking
at
about
a
73.5
percent
acceptance
rate
for
their
sat
scores.
What
I
really
liked
about
salisbury
was
I'm
not
a
test
taker,
so
I
was
terrified
for
the
sats.
They
don't.
They
accept
an
sat
score
from
a
1080
to
a
12
30,
an
act
of
a
22
to
a
26,
but
if
you
have
a
3.5,
gpa
or
higher,
you
do
not
have
to
submit
your
sat
scores,
which
I
thought
was
a
really
interesting
thing.
I
ended
up
choosing
to
do
both.
C
One
of
the
really
unique
things
about
salisbury
is
we're
a
pretty
fairly
cheap
school
in-state
tuition
is
about
ten
thousand
dollars
out
of
state's
about
twenty
thousand,
and
then
we
have
various
schools
at
our
university
within
the
different
majors.
So
we
have
the
fulton
school
of
liberal
arts,
the
seidel
school
of
education,
the
henson
school
of
science
and
technology,
the
protrude,
I'm
sorry
purdue
school
of
business,
and
then
we
have
the
college
of
health
and
human
sciences.
So
there's
so
much
to
pick
from
at
salisbury.
A
C
Personally,
I
am
involved
in
squakapella-
that
is
the
acapella
group
here
on
campus
there's
so
much
to
do,
though,
at
salisbury
we
have
everything
from
all
of
our
division:
three
sports
teams,
where
they
have
club
levels
and
intramural
levels
as
well
as
I
think
we
have
almost
over
200
clubs
from
like
quidditch
to
sign
language
to
best
buddies,
there's
dance
groups,
there's
political
groups,
there's
really
anything
you
want
to
get
involved
in
at
salisbury.
There's
always
something
to
do.
The
school's
really
good
about
our
sga
has
all
kinds
of
events.
C
So,
when
you're
walking
through
our
main
campus,
it's
called
red
square
out
in
front
of
our
library,
there's
always
some
organization
doing
something.
So
today,
zeta
tau
alpha
one
of
the
sororities,
did
a
benefit
for
charity
and
they
were
like
buying
different
members.
You
could
pay
a
dollar
and
go
buy
one
of
their
members.
They
do
raffles
out
there.
It's
always
there's
always
something
to
do
when
you're
walking
around.
B
C
Awesome
so
I
started
in
elementary
school
at
pasadena
elementary.
I
got
introduced
to
the
avid
program
through
my
guidance
counselor,
my
mom
seemed
really
interested
in
it.
I
was
going
to
be
a
first
generation
college
student,
so
she
thought
it
would
be
good
to
get
me
in
it
early.
I
applied
and
started
in
sixth
grade
at
chesapeake
bay
middle
school
with
miss
granger.
C
B
B
B
C
So,
being
completely
honest
at
first,
I
was
extremely
turned
off
by
avid,
because
I
immediately
thought
I
was
like.
I
have
another
class
full
of
work
and
I
don't
think
I
truly
accepted
what
the
class
was
and
really
used
its
benefits
until
high
school,
where
I
really
kind
of
realized.
Oh
my
gosh.
This
is
here
to
help
me.
This
is
something
that's
going
to
help
me
get
through
and
so
being
a
first
generation
college
student,
especially
I
had
no
idea
what
I
was
doing.
I
didn't
really
kind
of
know.
C
I
didn't
know
where
I
wanted
to
go.
I
didn't
know
kind
of
school
I
wanted
to
go
to.
I
didn't
know
how
the
whole
process
worked,
and
I
think
avid
really
allowed
me
to
get
that
first
insight
to
it.
I
mean
even
from
visiting
colleges
in
sixth
grade
all
the
way
up
through
twelfth
grade.
You
got
to
really
see
what
you
liked
what
you
didn't
like
on
the
aspect
of
like
the
more
academic
side.
I
am
a
little
bit
of
a
crazy
person.
My
head
gets
a
little
scattered.
C
C
B
C
Staple,
but
we
also
throughout
my
years
in
abbott
experience
different
types
of
note
taking
and
you
kind
of
got
to
learn
what
worked
best
for
you.
That
really
prepared
me
for
college
going
to
sit
through.
You
know
a
50
minute
to
an
hour
and
a
half
lecture
where
it's
just
kind
of
non-stop
stop
content
thrown
at
you.
C
It's
really
useful
to
be
able
to
sit
there,
take
your
notes,
but
then
be
able
to
know
how
to
go
back
and
like
take
the
information,
that's
important,
because
sometimes
you
sit
in
a
class
and
you're
like
all
right,
I'm
just
going
to
write
everything
down.
Okay,
but
what
are
you
going
to
do
next,
and
I
think
avid
allowed
me
to
say:
okay
now
that
I
have
all
of
this
information?
How
do
I
make
it
a
tool
for
me
to
learn
this
to
study
with
it
and
then
to
you
know,
obviously
understand
the
content.
C
So
I
really
I
love
the
organization
skills.
I
loved
the
college
aspect
of
like
getting
to
go
and
visit
them.
I
also
thought
it
was
really
interesting
how
avid
prepared
you
I
mean
through
every
step
of
the
process.
It
wasn't
that
they
held
it.
You
know
avid
held
your
hand,
but
it
was
kind
of
it
gave
you
the
framework
and
the
support
to
be
able
to
go
through
each
step.
I
had
no
idea
what
I
was
doing
when
it
came
to
applying
for
college.
I
didn't
know
how
I
needed
to
fill
out
questions.
C
I
didn't
know
what
kind
of
essay
to
write,
and
luckily
the
avid
program
had
me
prepared.
I
had
written
all
different
types
of
essays.
I
had
made
a
resume.
I
had
answered
similar
questions
so
when
it
went
into
going
to
apply,
I
was
like.
Oh,
I
have
all
of
this.
It's
not
as
big
as
I
think
it
is,
and
I
thought
that
was
that
was
really
incredible.
C
We
went
through
fafsa
my
senior
year,
we
all
sat
down,
people
had
family
members
come
in
and
we
sat
through
the
entire
process
and
applied
every
student
applied,
even
though
some
of
us
wouldn't
get
fafsa.
We
kind
of
just
did
the
application
just
to
see
how
it
would
work
if
we
would
ever
need
to
use
it,
and
I
thought
that
was
really
useful,
a
skill
because
you
never
know
when
you
might
need
it.
B
C
B
B
C
My
favorite
thing
definitely
has
to
be
the
people
I
came
to
college.
I
was
really
fortunate
with
my
best
friend.
It
was
not
intentional.
We
did
not
plan
next
to
go
to
the
same
college
and
I
was
really
concerned
at
first
because
I
was
like
I'm
not
gonna
make
any
other
friends,
but
that
totally
wasn't
the
case.
You're
constantly
interacting
with
people
all
of
the
time,
and
I
have
made
friends
from
my
freshman
year
the
people
that
lived
in
my
dorm
that
I
had
like
a
class
or
two
with
that.
C
I
see
now
you
know
almost
four
years
later
and
we
still
are
friendly
and
it's
so
nice
to
have
those
relationships.
I
really
feel
like
I
found
my
people
if
that's
like
cliche,
to
say
here
at
salisbury,
I've
never
felt
more
at
home
and
I
think
that
was
really
what
did
it
for
me.
I
actually
when
I
came
to
campus
with
with
my
avid
group,
we
came
my
junior
year
and
I
cried
when
I
walked
on
the
campus
and
it'd
been
about
my
third
time
here
and
I
started
crying.
C
B
C
So
I
definitely
have
to
say
the
best
part
about
college
is
the
people
and
what
you're
very
fortunate
about
is
that's
going
to
be
wherever
you
go,
so
it
doesn't
always
have
to
be
salisbury.
I
love
salisbury,
I'm
a
big
salisbury
fan
I
promote,
but
that's
one
of
the
best
parts
about
college.
My
least
favorite
part.
C
Oh
wow.
I
think.
Currently,
it's
sometimes
the
workload,
especially
being
a
college
generation
that
has
went
through
the
pandemic,
so
we
I
mean
as
well
as
many
of
the
high
schoolers
that
will
be
listening
to
this.
You
have
went
through
that
pandemic
as
well,
so
everything
went
virtual
and
at
least
for
personally
for
a
lot
of
college
students.
Our
curriculum
got
very
slow,
paced
assignments
were
very
lacks.
It
was
very
different
and
going
back
into
now
in
our
senior
year,
we're
all
in
you
know:
400
500
level
classes
we're
full
in
action.
C
A
lot
of
us
have
internships,
and
so
I
think
it's
just
really.
The
balancing
of
everything
can
be
a
little
overwhelming.
So
that's
probably
my
least
favorite
part,
but
there's
always
that
you
know
light
at
the
end
of
the
tunnel.
That's
coming!
That's
like
I
get
to
walk
across
the
stage
and
get
my
degree
and
it'll
all
be
worth
for
something.
C
Trust
yourself,
when
you're
picking
your
college
you're,
I
feel
like.
Personally,
I
knew
I
am
me
I
knew
at
every
college
I
went
to.
I
was
like
no.
This
isn't
for
me
this
one's
not
for
me,
you
kind
of
just
know
to
trust
yourself
with
whatever
decision
that
is,
and
if
that
major,
if
that
college,
if
that
dorm,
whatever
the
roommate
whatever
that
decision,
is
that,
like
you
make
and
if
it
doesn't
work
out,
that's
okay?
I
entered
college
as
a
nursing
major.
C
I
was
dead,
set
on
being
a
nursing
major
and
that
ended
up
not
being
the
case
for
me
and
I
for
the
longest
time
held
on
to
that.
So
much
and
I
was,
I
felt,
really
defeated
and
disappointed
in
myself
now
looking
at
it
a
couple
years
later,
it
was
the
best
decision
I
think
I've
ever
made
in
my
life,
and
so
you
kind
of
have
to
just
trust
yourself.
C
I
know
you
feel
like
especially
being
like
a
high
schooler
right
about
to
go
into
college,
that
new
age
of
18
is
terrifying,
because
there's
so
many
things,
it's
like
all
right.
Now
you
get
to
make
decisions.
You're
still
a
kid,
but
you
still
have
to
make
decisions
and
trust
yourself,
because
you
know
what
you
want
at
the
end
of
the
day
and
you'll
you'll
be
fine.
You'll
totally
be
fine.
I
promise,
even
when
it's
scary,
because
it's
I
promise
it's
still
scary.
B
C
A
new
plan
originally
enter
college.
Like
I
said
as
a
nursing
student,
my
goal
was
to
go
in,
do
like
a
general
bsn
and
work
in
a
hospital.
I
had
a
incident
happen
my
freshman
year
with
some
family,
and
I
decided
that
nursing
really
wasn't
for
me
and
I
had
always
known.
I
wanted
to
be
a
teacher,
but
I
was
very
scared.
C
I
once
had
someone
tell
me:
the
world
doesn't
need
any
more
teachers,
so
I
changed
my
major
and
I
changed
my
whole
life
and
when
I
came
back
to
that
decision
about
nursing,
I
had
kind
of
gotten
through
the
first
semester,
and
I
was
into
second
semester-
and
I
was
like
I
just
don't
feel
like
this
is
what's
for
me.
This
doesn't
feel
right,
I'm
not
enjoying
the
content
in
my
classes.
C
I
don't
I
just
I
didn't
feel
like
I
belonged
there.
So
when
I
made
the
decision
to
change,
I
knew
it
wanted
to
be
education
and
ended
up
going
into
early
childhood
education,
and
it
was
the
best
decision
I've
ever
made
in
my
life.
I
really
knew
that's
where
I
wanted
to
be,
and
I
really
I
got,
I
didn't
have
confirmation
until
the
fall,
the
fall
of
my
sophomore
year
when
I
got
to
go
into
my
first
ever
placement
into
a
school,
and
I
got
to
work
with
students.
C
I
cried
my
first
day
and
I
remember
calling
my
mom
and
I
was
like
okay
mom
this
is
it
like?
I've
never
felt
more
like
this
is
what
I'm
supposed
to
be
doing.
It
was
one
of
those
moments.
I
was
like
you
hear
about
it
in
movies.
You
read
about
it
in
books
and
I
was
so
excited
to
get
to
do
that.
I'm
so
sorry,
my
computer
just
moved
you.
So
my
future
plans
with
that
is
that
I'm
gonna
graduate
with
my
bachelor's
in
early
childhood
education.
C
I
would
like
to
stay
here
on
the
eastern
shore
actually
surprisingly,
and
work
for
a
couple
years
get
my
master's
through
salisbury,
I'd
like
to
be
a
preschool
or
kindergarten
teacher
and
just
kind
of
continue,
my
education.
I
would
really
like
to
get
my
doctorate
in
education,
some
point,
so
I
I
absolutely
love
it.
I
think
that
was
the
biggest
thing.
C
I
hear
myself
talking
about
it
all
of
the
time,
whether
my
friends,
whether
I'm
with
my
classmates
or
my
family,
whoever
I'm
around,
I
always
want
to
talk
about
education,
and
I
think
that's
like
it
was
that
moment.
So
I
definitely
I
want
to
teach
obviously
and
then
hopefully
get
some
degrees
and
work
in
the
whole
education
system.
I'm
not
really
sure
where
I
want
to
go
exactly
of
do.
I
want
to
just
be
a
full-time
teacher
for
the
rest
of
my
life.
B
You've
got
plenty
of
time
to
figure
that
out,
and
I
actually
had
that
aha
moment
about
teaching.
I
was
much
later
in
life,
but
I
got
a
job
as
a
part-time
secretary
in
a
school,
and
I
was
like
I
really
like
being
in
the
school.
I
think
I
want
to
be
a
teacher
and
my
degree
wasn't
in
education.
I
had
no
interest
in
it
until
that.
Like
that
moment,
like
you
said,
this
is
it.
This
is
where
I
belong.
C
I
think
I
think
it's
an
incredible
thing.
I
know
a
lot
of
my
friends
who
have
completely
different
majors.
My
roommate
is
in
environmental
science
and
biology,
double
major
and
she
started
doing
research.
He
does
research
on
birds
and
she
said
when
her
research
started
to
take
off.
She
was
like,
oh,
my
goodness
wait.
This
is
it
like.
This
is
what
I
want
to
do
forever
and,
like
I'm,
actually
doing
it
like
those
dreams.
I
had
as
a
little
kid.
I
think.
That's
that,
let
me
rephrase
it.
That
is
the
big
thing.
C
B
C
Going
into
freshman
year,
I
think
it's
a
big
change
for
a
lot
of
people.
I
grew
up.
You
know
with
my
own
room,
so
moving
with
the
roommate
was
a
lot.
I
was
really
fortunate
to
get
put
into
our
suite
style
living.
So
I
only
I
had
just
my
roommate.
We
shared
a
bathroom
with
two
other
girls
that
whole
lifestyle
is
a
huge
adjustment
for
a
lot
of
people
just
being
constantly
surrounded
by
people
is
a
little
new.
C
C
B
C
Maxing,
it
maybe
120
150.,
but
then
so
that
was
a
big
change
for
me
now
granted
now
I've
gotten
through
my
course.
My
classes
are
about
12
people,
which
is
really
really
nice.
It's
very
personal,
it's
a
very
personal
education
which
I
really
enjoy,
but
I
definitely
think
getting
used
to
just
being
a
number
in
a
class
and
kind
of
that
whole
lecture
style.
That's
I'm
not
going
to
hand
you
an
assignment
to
do
today
in
class
you're
going
to
listen
to
somebody
lecture
and
teach
it's.
C
It's
definitely
new,
but
you
adjust
really
well.
It
takes
a
minute,
you
kind
of
get
your
feet
wet
and
you're
like
okay.
I
got
this
it's
it's
just
it's
a
different
style
of
learning,
but
you
figure
it
out
along
the
way.
That
would
be
my
most
challenging
thing,
really
adjusting
the
dorm
life
and
kind
of
just
getting
used
to
the
different
type
of
classes.
Right,
yep,.
B
That
makes
sense
all
right.
Well,
the
last
two
questions.
I
think
we
definitely
already
covered
about
how
you
pick
the
major
that
you're
in
and
how
you
pick
the
college
that
you're
at
so
I
definitely
feel
like
you
covered
that
in
great
detail
before
so.
Unless
you
have
anything
to
add,
I
think
we
are
good
to
go.
C
C
I
think
you
take
those
moments
for
granted
a
little
bit
because
you
kind
of
want
to
rush
through
them
and
now,
looking
back
as
a
senior,
I
wish
I
would
hold
on
to
to
them
a
little
bit
longer,
but
embrace
them
all,
because
it's
a
part
of
like
the
next
chapter
of
your
life
and
it's
going
to
be
awesome.
You're
going
to
be
incredible,
you
know
I
don't
I
don't
know
who
I'm
talking
to,
but.