Two New Jersey High Schoolers Create College Scholarship

Two high school juniors in New Jersey have raised more than $63,000 to help Rutgers University students struck by sudden financial hardships.

By COED Staff

Alex Sonageri and Adam Schwartz placed jars in supermarkets and used a PowerPoint presentation to solicit donations from about 15 businesses for the scholarship. Four students so far will receive a semester’s worth of tuition. They include a woman who nearly withdrew because of the cost of a 52-week chemotherapy treatment for a cancerous cyst.

The 17-year-olds, who attend North Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, hope to raise $100,000 so they can endow the fund. The boys aren’t sure where they’d like to go to college, but they’re not ruling out Rutgers.

Read all about their efforts to raise private scholarship funding!