14-month scholar immersion program that in many ways is an academic and personal boot camp, if you will, it s a big climb but our students are always up to the task. oliver scholars are scholarship, leadership and service. i see myself as more of a scholarship. i work really hard in order to achieve my goals. the most i identify with is leadership. oliver has boosted my confidence a lot. and service. it s always good to give. i just really love helping people out. i graduated from oliver scholars in spring of 2018. coming from public middle school you re not necessarily ready academically for the level of rigorous classes that you will take at high school so a lot of the classes that i took at oliver scholars prepared me for them. every class has a counselor and a tutor supervising the students. one of the things that the staff would say distinguishes this organization is how deeply