President Bush may propose eliminating funds next year for two popular programs that help needy students prepare for college, in an effort to finance an expansion of his signature No Child Left Behind law to high-school students, according to higher-education advocates. The college-access programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search, have a combined budget of $460-million and serve a total of about 455,000 students and veterans. While Bush\'s proposal will not be certain until he releases his 2006 budget in early February, reports of the potential cuts have alarmed advocates of Upward Bound and Talent Search, which are part of the federal TRIO programs for disadvantaged students. Supporters of the programs said the Bush administration had probably taken aim at them because the programs and the president\'s proposed high-school initiative serve a similar purpose -- to prepare students for postsecondary education.