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

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.

Strive’s conception and future are based on a simple idea: students at four-year colleges and universities—having just gone through the admissions process themselves—have both the resources and knowledge to guide those high school students who do not possess these same resources through the college admissions process.

Strive uses a comprehensive approach to college counseling, covering every aspect of the college admissions process from financial aid to personal essays to factors that should go into choosing a college. Our curriculum is built with guidance and contributions from professionals across the country, and is constantly being updated to best serve our communities.

Currently, Strive operates two chapters at Washington University in St. Louis. A list of planned chapters for Fall 2008 is below.

2007 Chapters
Washington University in St. Louis (with the Annika Rodriguez Scholars Program) | St. Louis, MO
Washington University in St. Louis (with the Lock & Chain Honorary) | St. Louis, MO

Planned Fall 2008 Pilot Chapters
Washington University in St. Louis (with the National Society of Black Engineers) | St. Louis, MO
San Jose State University | San Jose, CA
University of Miami | Miami, FL
Georgetown University | Washington, D.C.
Duke University | Durham, NC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC