By the Numbers: Near’s 2024–2025 Tour of Maine High Schools

As we reported this past fall, Mitchell Institute Scholarship Director Casey Near (pictured upper right) made an ambitious offer to Maine high school leaders in September: to visit their school with a Mitchell Scholar and provide students with guidance on the college search and admission process as well as help with opening Mitchell Scholarship applications.

Since October 1, she has driven nearly 3,000 miles and visited 29 high schools and youth-serving organizations statewide to encourage students to apply for college and the Mitchell Scholarship. She has ventured as far north as Fort Fairfield and as far south as North Berwick to meet with guidance counselors and 400 students.

These are just a few of the stats associated with Near’s 2024–2025 Tour of Maine High Schools — the largest and most far reaching in Mitchell Institute history — that are worth noting. Click the link below for more facts about her statewide tour, including which schools yielded the greatest increase in Mitchell Scholarship applications over last year and which convened the greatest number of students to hear Near speak.

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