Our graduates are off to prestigious colleges

The 2022 high school graduates are preparing for higher education. OKC FRIDAY’s nearly 100 All Stars included in the Salute to the Class of 2002, in today’s edition, are planning to attend 43 individual colleges, including two Ivy League schools. 

Many of these schools are considered highly prestigious or close to the Ivy League level. The majority of the schools are outside of Oklahoma representing 22 different states from the East to West Coasts. 

These colleges range from extremely familiar to utterly unique catering to the students' choice in career path. This includes places such as Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. 

There are also three students attending two of the top eight Ivy League schools: Princeton and Harvard. These schools are followed by highly prestigious colleges such as the University of Chicago and the University of Georgia which require above a 4.0 GPA for acceptance. 

This is alongside two schools ranked Tier 1 for education which includes Rice University in Houston, Texas and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. 

There are multiple other universities held in high prestige which these graduates plan to attend including the state’s own University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and the University of Central Oklahoma.