Meet Our Partner High Schools: Ursuline

Ursuline Highlights:

All of our partner high school’s in the Youngstown, Ohio area strive for academic excellence, offering Advanced Placement courses & by participating in the College Credit Plus program with Youngstown State University. This program allows high school students to take and earn credits from actual university courses.

Ursuline’s reputation as a rigorous private prep academy for higher education is well-earned, with:

More National Merit Scholars than any other school in the region over the past decade.

The graduating class of 2018 earned $9.2 million in scholarships for university.

Earning an A grade from the school rating site Niche.com

Ursuline offers the Merici Med Prep Program for students interested in the healthcare field.

The Program Offers:

• A special four-year curriculum for students interested in health-care careers

• Job shadowing healthcare professionals at Mercy Health Hospital in Youngstown

• Video conferences with medical staff and educators for lectures

• Video conferences to observe live surgical procedures

• Conducting virtual dissections using a device that provides a detailed simulation.

Ursuline offers a wide range of options for student to prepare for them for a global society.This ranges from engaging topics from a cross-disciplinary perspective as well as designing and implementing a research project as part of the AP Capstone program (10th to 12th grade) to using an online college program called “Talkabroad” to allow student to practice a foreign language by speaking to students in other countries.

Alumni University Admissions:

Thanks to such opportunities and a good deal of hard work, Ursuline’s students have been offered admission to Top 100 schools like: