{"id":160672,"date":"2012-04-23T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bf6ee3f0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-04-23T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:56:00","slug":"bf6ee401-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bf6ee401-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG&#8217;s Upward Bound accepting applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam&#8217;s Upward Bound college prep program is accepting applications from interested students currently in 8th, 9th, 10th, or 11th grade. <\/p>\n<p>Free academic services are provided during the school year and summer including academic tutoring; college and career prep activities; field trips\/ cultural trips; financial aid information; six-week summer program at UOG; self-development workshops; and other benefits. <\/p>\n<p>Students applying must meet eligibility criteria such as: minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher;  parents\/ legal guardians do not have a four-year college degree or come from low-income family; and applicants meet citizenship\/resident requirements. Slots are limited. <\/p>\n<p>For Upward Bound applications and other eligibility criteria call (671) 735-2245\/1992. Deadline to apply is May 18. [I](UOG)[\/I]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam&#8217;s Upward Bound college prep program is accepting applications from interested students currently in 8th, 9th, 10th, or 11th grade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}