For Local Students, HartLand Promise Makes All the Difference
Thanks to the HartLand Promise, Makenna Ventuleth '27 is one step closer to her career goals.
By Libby Cudmore
“I plan to go into the medical field, but those programs require such big loans,” said the biology and pre-med double-major. “The HartLand Promise brought that cost down so far that I don’t need to take out loans for my undergraduate degree.”
Ventuleth, a resident of Worcester, NY, learned about the HartLand Promise when a staff member from Hartwick spoke about it to her New Visions Health Care Professions program, offered through the Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES. “At that point, I was planning to go to the University of South Florida,” she said. “I don’t like the cold!”
But she was intrigued and spoke to a few Hartwick alumni, including Susan Hugick ’91, her math teacher at Worcester Central School, and her New Visions mentor, Margaret Subik-Stevens ’96.
Ventuleth also chatted with Emily Thompson ’26, a current Hartwick nursing student who had been a year ahead of her in the New Visions program. “I asked how she liked the campus life,” she said. “She gave me a lot of good advice.”
But it was a Hartwick Accepted Student Day that finalized her decision.
