College Summit Jobs in Massachusetts

Company:
College Summit
Current Opportunities (1)
Company Website
Location(s):
1763 Columbia Road, NW
Second Floor
Washington,  DC
20009
Map Location
Phone:
(202) 319-1763
Industry:
Non-Profit
Size:
100-499

Company Overview

College Summit started in 1993, with four students at a Teen Center in the basement of a low-income housing project in Washington, D.C. The Center's Director, J.B. Schramm, had worked as a Freshman Advisor at Harvard while in graduate school, and he knew that Admissions Officers were hungry for low-income talent. But every year at the Teen Center, he saw dozens of such kids ready for college and not going. (One had written a screenplay for a film project. Another balanced the Center's books.) He was reminded of his own inner-city high school in Denver where – except for the very few with top grades and scores – low-income students didn’t go to college. The students with mid-tier credentials, many of whom could have done well at college, lacked the “know-how” and support senior year that the students whose parents had gone to college enjoyed.

Tired of seeing teens "graduate" from his Center to the street, Schramm became determined to help admissions offices see students the way he saw them. He enlisted the best Writing Instructor he’d seen at Harvard, and the finest urban youth worker he knew. Together they designed a system to help bright, low-income students who, with the right support during the transition from high school to college, could propel their lives (and communities) in a positive direction.

College Summit's mission is to increase the college enrollment rate of low-income students — by ensuring that every student who can make it in college makes it to college, and by putting college access “know-how” and support within the reach of every student.