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
FEATURED LINK
QuestBridge A Strive for College
partner since our inception,
QuestBridge is a program that
works to link the best, motivated low-income high school students with scholarships and educational opportunities at the nation's best colleges.
questbridge.org
IN THE NEWS

July 28, 2008 - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose, California
SJSU, East Side Union Team Up to Make Student's Dream a Reality
Michael Carter, a chipper 20-year-old, was sipping hot chocolate at the Almaden Roasting Company last year with former United Way chief Mark Walker, yearning for some constructive feedback on his big idea. A San Jose native, Carter wanted to help high school kids get into college.

July 27, 2008 - KLIV News Talk Radio
San Jose, California
Strive for College is Coming to San Jose
Listen to the full interview here.

July 25, 2008 - Almaden Resident
San Jose, California
S.J. grad guides students through the college admissions maze
For Michael Carter, a 2006 graduate of Prospect High School in Saratoga, the best way to break through the confusion is to enlist the help of college students who have just been there, and he has founded a volunteer program that connects college students to low-income high schoolers who could use some help with applications and student loans.