17-Year-Old Imunique Triplett Finishes Nursing Degree Before Graduating High School
17-Year-Old Imunique Triplett wasn’t aware she could get a college degree before graduating high school, but that’s exactly what took place. Triplett was one of the first to complete the nursing degree plan as apart of the M-Cubed College Connections to complete their high school requirements and earn college credits from the college and university at no cost to the incident Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Triplett told Atlanta Black Star, she to balance her three to four college classes and high school coursework at the same time, “I definitely say the second semester was the hardest to balance especially since I kind of wanted to have that normal high school experience as well, so I was kind of trying to juggle all of those things,” Triplett said.
Before getting into the program, Triplett was a bit nervous about being in the medical field, “I was actually kind of anti-health care because I was so scared of body fluids and blood and things like that, so I kind of made my own assumptions about the health care field based on what I saw on TV and everything.” Triplett would later change her mind once she learned more about nursing.
Triplett’s mother, Bonnie Campbell is glad her daughter went into nursing. “She wasn’t into the meds and stuff like that, so I was like, are you sure, because we’ve got to be the ones running you back and forth, so make sure this is what you want to do, and she really surprised me,” Campbell said.
James Sokolowski, post-secondary engagement coordinator for Milwaukee Public Schools, told the news outlet, many Black and brown students are taking advantage of the M-Cubed program. The program offers several different options including education and general studies tracks. The nursing program typically has about 150 students apply, but 36 are selected.
Some 82 percent of students within Milwaukee’s public school system are considered economically disadvantaged. MPS has around 77,700 students, with 54 percent Black, 27 percent Hispanic, 11 percent white, and 7 percent Asian, according to latest data.
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