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Opening Up College-Prep Programs

Sebastian Myrick wants to help as many students as possible get to and through college. But the longtime director of TRIO college-prep programs at South Seattle Community College regularly has to turn away undocumented students who are not eligible for the college access programs funded by the federal government. In the last year, about 15 percent of the high school students who applied for a TRIO program were undocumented.
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