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

Where We Are

Our chapters and our future:

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
Sonoma State University | Sonoma, CA
University of Miami | Miami, FL
Duke University | Durham, NC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC

Bring Strive to your college or university today, and start changing lives.
Interested in joining, supporting or contacting an existing chapter? Contact Vice President Christopher Sopher.