Proven Strategy

College Summit provides districts and schools with a strategy and tools to transform college going throughout the district. Equipping students, teachers, counselors, principals and administrators alike, College Summit builds the capacity, expectation and excitement for change at all levels.

College Summit was founded on the belief that all students can achieve in secondary and post-secondary education. For more than a decade, we have supported and watched every kind of student succeed in college. Our work empowering young people with the information, motivation and support to get to college has proven that with the proper tools, young people who otherwise were not going to college can enroll and stay in school.

At the urging of a high school guidance counselor, College Summit began exploring how our direct success with a small group of young people could be adapted to help high schools unlock the potential of even more students. Since that time, our work has focused on supporting high schools to build their own capacity to send all of their students to college.

When asked why they choose to partner with College Summit, schools and districts often cite:

  • That our strategy allows them to serve all students across high schools and the district, and have direct management over the outcomes;
  • That we build our partners’ capacity to successfully send more students to college
  • That we have a proven track record of success.
Schools and districts across the country are showing that their students can achieve at the next level. It is our privilege to support educators in their efforts to unlock the potential of all students.
College Summit in
The New York Times
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The Students' Own Words
In Their Words is a collection of some of the best student essays from our first ten years.
News, Press and Events
  1. College Summit Named "United States Social Entrepreneur of the Year"

    Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship honors organization at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

  2. David Brooks Highlights College Summit in The New York Times
  3. Deloitte and College Summit Make National Headlines
  4. College Summit Poised for Growth in New York City