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Not Going It Alone

'Posse' mentor program helps students thrive in college

New York

On a recent fall afternoon here, 100 high-school seniors jostled into the offices of the Posse Foundation in lower Manhattan. Some were boisterous and brash, others more subdued and nervous.

But all were on their best behavior, because the stakes were high: The "casting call"...

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