ast fall, a Howard University sophomore was fielding dozens of phone calls between midnight and 3 a.m. from seniors at Brooklyn College Academy.
The young men had a million questions about applying to college, and as a leader of the Sophisticated Well Articulated Gentlemen’s Group (SWAGG) to which they all belong, Jude Bridgewater had pledged to always answer their calls.
Bridgewater, 20, says one of his best days of the year came this spring, when a member named Turel Polite, who had clashed early and often with high school administrators, was accepted into his top choice college — the Academy of Art University in California. Polite credits high school staff members who stayed on his case, and the close-knit network of SWAGG.
[For more of this story, written by Meredith Koloder, go to http://hechingerreport.org/a-l...e-students-graduate/]
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