34 SCHOLARS FROM THE 2021 CLASS OF THE EQUITY LEADERS PROGRAM SECURE ADMISSIONS TO GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES IN EARLY DECISION WITH 27 CONFIRMED FULL SCHOLARSHIPS

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27 scholars from the Equity Leadership Program comprising of Wings to Fly alumni beneficiaries and those who topped the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in the country; have received early admissions with full scholarship valued at KES 916,670,492 (USD8,076,392) to 18 global universities. The admissions are spread across USA, South Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe.

The total number of scholars admitted to global universities is expected to rise after the regular admission decisions are made by end of May 2022. This brings the total number of ELP scholars and alumni of global universities to 715. Of this, the total number of Wings to Fly beneficiaries in global universities stands at 154 scholars.

When announcing the early admissions, Dr. James Mwangi, the Group MD and CEO of Equity Group Holdings and Chairman of Equity Group Foundation (EGF) said, “This marks a good start for our scholars’ entry into leading universities around the world. Out of the 27 early decisions with full scholarship, 11 have admissions to Ivy League Universities in the United States including Cornell (2), Dartmouth (2), Princeton (1), University of Pennsylvania (4) and Yale (2).

“This is commendable noting that this is a cohort that was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that had the scholars take a 9-month break from school to study from home. Despite the circumstances brought about by the delay, their performance compares favourably with the 2020 cohort that secured 26 early decisions.”

Equity supported the scholars with an 8-week long College Counselling program fully funded by the Bank, where scholars were guided and mentored on the university application and preparation process. The ELP program positions the scholars as the next generation of leaders both locally and globally.

They are therefore supported to access secondary education for the case of Wings to Fly alumni and, together with top national performers, obtain access to 2-6 months paid internship where they gain work experience and sharpen their leadership skills. The Program embeds mentorship and leadership development with the purpose of moulding well-rounded scholars who are creative, innovative and who connect with the communities that they come from.

The values of giving back to the community, professionalism, applying a solution approach, combined with value-based servant leadership, and academic excellence are some of the components that are key in the Equity Leaders Program.

The power of networks remains a pillar in this program, and locally the ELP scholars continue to utilize the diverse skills, capabilities and opportunities as corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. For example, Equity Afia is an ELP-run medical franchise that is transforming medical service delivery in the country.

The initiative demonstrates the capacity of our young people to provide solutions to local challenges, when given an opportunity and the right support to optimise on their academic talent and potential.

Dr. Mwangi further said “The success of ELP in Kenya inspired our strategy to roll out the program in the other regions where Equity has operations.

Currently Uganda, Rwanda, and DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) have launched their respective ELP initiatives, and we are confident that these young leaders will continue to shape the leadership dialogue across the globe.

ADMISSIONS BY UNIVERSITY

No	Institution	Count
1	African Institute of Mathematical Sciences	1
2	African Leadership Academy (ALA)	10
3	African Leadership University (ALU)	38
4	Agnes Scott College	2
5	AIFA Flight School	1
6	Alexandria University	1
7	Amherst College	15
8	Arizona State University	13
9	Ashesi University	21
10	Barnard College	2
11	Bates College	1
12	Baylor University	1
13	Beijing Jiaotong University	4
14	Benedict College	1
15	Bennington College	1
16	Berea College	1
17	Bowdoin College	4
18	Bradford University	1
19	Brandeis University	4
20	Bristol University	1
21	Brown University	13
22	Bryn Mawr College	4
23	Budapest Business School	1
24	Budapest University of Technology and Economics	5
25	Cambridge University	1
26	Carnegie Mellon University	5
27	Carthage College	4
28	Central South University	3
29	Colby College	1
30	Colgate University	2
31	College of Wooster	1
32	Colorado College	1
33	Columbia University	12
34	Comenius University	3
35	Connecticut College	1
36	Cornell University	23
37	Corvinus University of Budapest	1
38	Dartmouth College	19
39	Davidson College	5
40	DeerField Academy	1
41	Dordt College	1
42	Duke University	17
43	Earlham College	1
44	Earth University	6
45	Ecole Centrale De Nantes	5
46	Emory University	1
47	Éotvôs Lorand University	2
48	Georgetown University	2
49	Gettysburg College	1
50	Gubkin Russian State University	1
51	Hamilton College	2
52	Harvard University	34
53	Haverford College	3
54	Hillsdale College	2
55	Hofstra University	1
56	Indiana University South Bend	1
57	Institute of Chemical Technology	1
58	Jacobs University, Bremen	1
59	Johns Hopkins University	4
60	Kalinga Institute of Industrial Training	1
61	Karolinska Institute	1
62	Keio University	1
63	Kirklareli Universitesi	1
64	KIU – Dar es Salaam	1
65	KNR Technological University	1
66	Kurukshetra University	1
67	Lafayette College	6
68	Leeds Beckett University	1
69	London School of Economics (LSE)	1
70	Louisiana Tech University	1
71	Lynn University	1
72	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	11
73	McGill University	9
74	Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Turkey)	1
75	Michigan State University	9
76	Middle East Technical University (METU)	4
77	Middlebury College	7
78	Minerva Schools at KGI	13
79	Moscow Power Engineering Institute	1
80	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	1
81	National Institute of Technology	1
82	Necmettin Erbakan University	1
83	New York University	1
84	New York University – Abu Dhabi	3
85	North Carolina State University	1
86	Northwestern University	16
87	Notre Dame University	1
88	Nuova Academia Di Belle Arti Milano	1
89	Oklahoma State University	1
90	Pennsylvania State University (PSU)	3
91	Pepperdine University	1
92	Pomona College	8
93	Princeton University	14
94	Queens University	1
95	Rhodes College	1
96	Rice University	1
97	Saratov Medical State University	1
98	Sciences Po University	2
99	Seoul National University	1
100	Smith College	12
101	South Eastern University	2
102	Spellman College	1
103	Stanford University	12
104	Stony Brook University	1
105	Swarthmore College	6
106	Syracuse University	1
107	Trinity College	3
108	Tufts University	4
109	Uludag University Medical Faculty	1
110	Union College	1
111	United World College (UWC)	2
112	University of Aberdeen	1
113	University of Agriculture and Life Science (MATE)	1
114	University of Alberta	1
115	University of Bath	2
116	University of Bloomington	1
117	University of British Columbia (UBC)	10
118	University of California, Berkeley	11
119	University of Cape Town (UCT)	14
120	University of Central Florida	1
121	University of Chicago	5
122	University of Dar Es Salaam	1
123	University of Debrecen	8
124	University of Edinburgh	5
125	University of London	1
126	University of Manchester	2
127	University of North Carolina, Charlotte	1
128	University of Notre Dame	5
129	University of Pennsylvania	29
130	University Politehnica of Bucharest	1
131	University of Pretoria	18
132	University of Reading	1
133	University of Richmond	1
134	University of Rochester	11
135	University of Shanghai for Science and Technology	1
136	University of Sheffield	1
137	University of Soporon	1
138	University of Toronto	17
139	University of Wisconsin – Madison	2
140	Uppsala University	1
141	Vanderbilt University	11
142	Vassar College	7
143	Washington and Lee University	1
144	Watson University	1
145	Wellesley College	1
146	Wesleyan University	3
147	West Virginia University	1
148	Whitman College	1
149	Williams College	9
150	Wroclaw Medical University	1
151	Yale NUS College	4
152	Yale University	24
153	Yalova University	1
154	Yonsei University	1
	Not Known	3
	Grand Total	715

IVY LEAGUE INSTITUTIONS

No	Institution	Count
1	Brown University	13
2	Columbia University	12
3	Cornell University	23
4	Dartmouth College	19
5	Harvard University	34
6	Princeton University	14
7	University of Pennsylvania	29
8	Yale University	24
	Grand Total	168