Female wrestlers are also coming from high schools and clubs.
They came from high schools, from junior colleges, from major universities, even from Canada.
Other colleges have said they will accept documents from high schools on paper, rather than electronically.
The 41 entries, none higher than your hip, were designed and built by teams from high schools, colleges and communities.
Here are excerpts from some of the speeches written by this June's valedictorians from high schools around Connecticut.
But reformers have typically turned away from high schools, where underperforming students are much harder to help.
The nation's top three career scorers are from high schools in north Louisiana, two from Sabine Parish.
Like other colleges, Wesleyan gives a "lift," however slight, to those applying from high schools in its home state.
This is not the usual environment for Rocking the Boat students, who are recruited from high schools in the Bronx.
She added that counselors from high schools throughout the county are reporting heavier drug and alcohol use among ninth graders.
"We are a membership organization, so we hear directly from high schools and colleges, and they all say writing needs a huge amount of work," Mr. Caperton said.
