Alexis Grippi, of Collegeville, Pa., longs for the day she can open up her own fashion boutique. Unlike other students competing to gain a foothold in the fashion industry, Alexis has not been able to pursue the highly coveted college internships (often unpaid) needed to give her a leg up. She graduates this spring from Pennsylvania’s Immaculata University with
Today marks the launch our first-ever 1,000 Dreams Challenge, a four-week photo caption campaign on social media with one $1,000 grand prize and two $500 prizes at stake. SWEET!
We are thrilled to announce this year the launch of the 1,000 Dreams Fund, an exciting new scholarship fund and platform aimed at empowering young women through $1,000 scholarships (or micro-grants) for critical out-of-classroom experiences and educational expenses.
From crippling student loan debt to glass ceilings, internships to sexual assault on campus, young women in America today have a lot to figure out and fast.
Young women need as much knowledge as possible to move forward in a world that is just now engaging in an honest discussion about gender equality.
Congrats to Callie D. – our LAST #GradSwag giveaway winner! Thank you to everyone who entered! Sign up for our newsletter to learn about upcoming giveaways! Graduation season is almost here. If you’re finishing up high school and getting ready to enter college (or know someone who is), we’ve got the perfect thing! In honor of this special
The world is always changing. And so are the concerns and interests of young women in college. We thought about this a lot when we working on our 4th edition of our best-selling guidebook to college, UChic: College Girls’ Real Advice for Your First Year (And Beyond!) For this new edition, we totally revamped the
Earlier in the year, we were on a quest to find a group of socially savvy and philanthropically-minded young women to help us spread the mission of UChic to high school and college campuses across the country. Our goal was to launch our company’s first-ever Campus Ambassador Program. We are thrilled that after having received
Hey Chicsters – College is expensive. There is no way around it. And it isn’t only about the expensive college tuition that students and parents have to worry about covering. There are expensive books to buy, awesome but unpaid internships to fund, life-changing study-board programs to find funding for, and conferences that could connect you
Hello Chicsters! If you have been following UChic over the last year, you’ve probably noticed we’ve undergone some changes…some small and some incredibly BIG in terms of our on-going commitment to helping young women in the U.S. live their dreams. From our earlier roots as a website dedicated to covering the topics that college women
