At a reception for the hundreds of incoming Star Scholars, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Juan Salgado recognized more than 445 Star Scholar graduates who have transferred to a 4-year college or university since 2016.  Many of the college and university partners have increased the number of Star Scholar transfer students accepted in the same time period. Students in the Star Scholarship program are projected to graduate at a rate double the national average for first-time, full-time students at two-year public institutions. The 2018 Star Scholarship preliminary IPEDS graduation rate, which includes the Fall 2015 class, is 47 percent. More than 800 students have graduated from City Colleges as part of the Star Scholarship program. Now entering its fourth year, the Chicago Star Scholarship has helped more than 5,300 CPS graduates – representing more than 75 zip codes and more than 200 high schools citywide – to enroll in college at no cost. To date, Star Scholars have been earned more than $3.1 million in scholarship offers from four-year colleges and universities, including: DePaul University, Dominican University, Governors State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, National Louis University, Northwestern University, North Park University, Roosevelt University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.