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Committed to the day when every student who can make it IN college makes it TO college
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Description:
The Problem: Students from the low-income quartile who gets A's on standardized tests go to college at the same rate as their higher income peers who get D's on the same tests.
College Summit currently works with 1,200 students and 15 high schools in the Greater Bay Area. College Summit is a national ... Read More
The Problem: Students from the low-income quartile who gets A's on standardized tests go to college at the same rate as their higher income peers who get D's on the same tests.
College Summit currently works with 1,200 students and 15 high schools in the Greater Bay Area. College Summit is a national organization, with a regional office in Northern California, that helps U.S. high schools raise their college-enrollment rates by providing seniors with a course in post-secondary planning, training teachers and counselors to build a college-ready culture, equipping the most influential students in the school to help their peers apply to college, and by collaborating with school leaders to manage and evaluate results.
At the root of College Summit's social change model is the recognition that getting first-generation students to and through college is one of the most cost-effective ways to break the cycle of poverty in the United States. College graduates earn nearly $1 million more over the course of their careers, and their children are almost twice as likely to go to college as non-graduates.
Growing in one of California’s top public school districts, where 90% of students go on to a 2 or 4 year college, I benefited from incredible resources throughout my K-12 education, and I know that support was instrumental in my access to higher education. In college, I led a an organization that provides free SAT preparation classes to high school students in the East Bay, but I quickly realized that increasing access to higher education requires a much more comprehensive approach to preparing students for college, and have since been committed supporting organizations like College Summit that work with schools to provide a range of services to foster a community of motivation to increase the number of college-bound students in underserved communities.
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Goal
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$100
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Goal Date
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5/14/2009
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COLLEGE SUMMIT INC
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WASHINGTON , DC
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Accepting Online Donations
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1763 COLUMBIA RD NW STE 2 , WASHINGTON , DC
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College Summit started in 1993, with four students at a teen center in the basement of a low-income housing project in Washington, D.C. The Center's Director, J.B. Schramm, had worked as an Academic Advisor at Harvard while in graduate school, and had seen that Admissions Officers were hungry for low-income talent. But every year at the Teen Center, he saw dozens of such kids ready for college and not going. He was reminded of his own inner-city high school in Denver where – except for the very few with top grades and scores – low-income students didn’t go to college. The students with mid-tier credentials, many of whom could have done well at college, lacked the “know-how” and support senior year that the students whose parents had gone to college enjoyed.
Tired of seeing students "graduate" from his teen center to the street, Schramm became determined to help admissions offices see students the way he saw them. He enlisted the best writing instructor he’d seen in graduate school, and the finest urban youth worker he knew. Together they designed a system to help bright, low-income students who, with the right support during the post-secondary transition, could propel their lives (and communities) in a positive direction.
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