Welcome to College Summit
Technology to Support Achievement
College Summit provides schools with an online tracking system so you can keep track of where each student in your classroom is in the college application process.
Teachers and counselors, like principals and superintendents, need information to make the best decisions: College Summit provides you with critical information and analysis during the school year. You can then identify and provide special support to students while there is still time to assist them.
Every teacher can monitor real time progress toward college going goals for each student within his or her classroom. In addition, schools receive a monthly scorecard listing progress by classroom. Finally, in the spring, schools and districts get an enrollment analysis of the previous year’s graduating class. Reporting significant college going improvements can help the district build and maintain positive momentum.
The Students' Own Words
The College Summit strategy was born from a desire to stop expecting first-generation and low-income students to do what middle-class students can’t do: manage their own way through the college admissions process alone.
"It seemed to me that it took two kinds of adults to help students enroll in college: the expert resource person, usually the school counselor; and the college-experienced adult who manages each student through the process face-to-face, usually a college-experienced parent. With few college-experienced parents available, counselors are asked to take on the impossible task of providing expert resources, and directly managing the process for hundreds of students. Schools serving significant numbers of low-income first-generation students faced an enormous challenge: without someone to manage the process along with the student, how could they expect to send more students to college?"
J.B. Schramm, College Summit Founder and CEO