WHAT IS STRIVE?

Strive for College is an innovative college mentoring program that connects motivated, low-income high school students with undergraduate mentors, who guide them through the college application process and into enrollment at four-year universities and colleges, providing them with opportunities and resources to break the cycle of poverty forever.

FEATURED FACT

Every year, more than 200,000 low-income students graduate from high school in America ready to go to college – but do not.

Source Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Empty Promises: The Myth of College Access in America, Washington, D.C., 2002

Mission

Imagine this: an America where every motivated student can attend a four-year college or university - an America where income and socio-economic background are no obstacle to higher education and success. This is our mission.

Strive aims to help a considerably higher proportion of motivated low-income students enroll in four-year universities and colleges, enriching the diversity and talent of our workforce in an increasingly global economy.

We envision a world where university students use their knowledge, experience, and resources to help high school students from under-served areas learn that four-year colleges are accessible to them, and then guide them through the college admissions process.

Through the program’s growth and success, we will foster a college-bound culture in the communities we serve, and a new generation of leaders on college campuses across the country committed to service, opportunity, and our shared stake in one another.