The Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship is a highly selective scholarship for the nation’s top community college students seeking to complete their bachelor’s degrees at four-year colleges or universities. Each Cooke Scholar has access to generous financial support for two to three years, college planning support, ongoing advising, and the opportunity to connect with the thriving community of fellow Scholars.
Sagar Chapagain"In 2012, if somebody would say to me that I would be a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, that I would go to an Ivy League school with a full scholarship, that I would graduate at the top of my Community College and give a speech in front of 7,500 people, I would say that must be a good joke," Sagar said.
Sagar said his community college advisers played a big role in his success, which landed him a spot at Cornell where he majors in biology.
"My advisers, they kept pushing me, they said that you have to do better," Sagar said. "You have to go to a school outside of Maryland, you have to go to one of those elite schools. Because that's where you will get good education, and you will meet people who are different than you or who have different ideas and you will grow a lot as a person."
