What is the Dream Project?

The Dream Project is a student-initiated high school outreach program that partners UW students with first-generation and low-income students in Seattle area high schools to assist in the college admissions process (including SAT prep, applications, writing essays, applying for financial aid, and finding scholarships).

A dual-focus approach

The program has a dual-focus approach: one, to give these college-bound high school students the assistance that they may not be able to receive at home or from other areas of their lives; and two, to simultaneously teach UW students about educational opportunity and social mobility and examine these ideas in the context of the University of Washington. The UW class meets twice a week — once as an entire class as part of the UW course and once with their smaller group at their assigned high school to work with the students.

A sponsored outreach program at the University of Washington

The Dream Project works closely with our sponsors at the University of Washington: the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Life, and the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity. We are partnered with eight high schools in the Seattle area and serve more than 300 high school students with the combined efforts of over 200 UW students.