College Summit Receives 1.5M grant from Skoll Foundation



While applying to Yale, J.B. Schramm noticed that many of his friends from less-advantaged backgrounds were not going on to college. He knew that students who are the first to attend college in their families are twice as likely to have children who also attend college, so he founded College Summit in 1993 to help students from low-income communities navigate the college application process. College Summit has achieved a college enrollment rate of 70 percent and a college retention rate of 80 percent. The cost per student has dropped, while the number of students served annually has risen from 925 in 2002 to 3,600 in 2004. The organization plans to serve 28,000 students over the next three years.

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