For Students & Alumni

Anthony Irick, Peer Leader 05-6, Edisto High School

Anthony Irick is a freshman at  Marshall University, a College Summit partner college in Huntington, West Virginia that awarded him a partial scholarship. An alumnus of the very first University of South Carolina workshop in 2005, the 17-year-old Peer Leader recently graduated from Edisto High School in Orangeburg, SC. He credits College Summit with teaching him how to think more creatively about how to express himself, and to see his future in a new light through newfound self-advocacy skills. Anthony has some advice for his fellow students: “Don’t put yourselves down. There is a college out there for everybody. Find that college, and stick with it.”

Tymon Graham, Peer Leader 05-06, Sumter High School

“College Summit lets students be who they are and brings out the best in each and every student. It helps students find the resources they need in high school, college, or have graduated and in the real world.” Tymon Graham is a freshman at College Summit partner school South Carolina State University and will be majoring in English Education and will some day become a teacher. (a graduate of Sumter High School and graduated in June 2006.)

DiMarcus Washington, College Summit South Carolina Alumnus and Fellow

“If College Summit helped me, then it could help a whole lot of others,” says Dimarcus Washington. 

Dimarcus attended the University of Denver Workshop in 2004 as a peer leader from Sumter High School in South Carolina. His experience at this workshop was life-changing. Dimarcus said that prior to the Denver workshop he was “lost.” “I just sat around…not knowing where I wanted to go to college, or how I was going to pay for it.” By the fourth day of his workshop, Dimarcus was energized and knowledgeable, fully aware of his options.

Dimarcus is currently a sophomore at the University of South Carolina in Aiken. He enjoys helping others find their path to college and has returned to College Summit as an Alumni Leader and also as a panelist at Educators’ Institute this past summer. In the future Dimarcus plans to attend law school with the goal of eventually opening up his own law firm.

Those who have worked alongside Dimarcus have been impressed by his “eagerness and willingness to learn” and describe succeeding through college as his ultimate “dream”. Dimarcus is undoubtedly well on his way to making his dreams come true.