Role of Peer Leaders

Attend College Summit Workshop

  • Emphasis: complete college application portfolio and become veterans of the college application experience

Actively Participate in College Summit Class

  • Lead “Peer Leader Perspective” sections of the College Summit Navigator, Advisor’s Edition
  • Share non Workshop-related personal experiences
  • Provide peers with technological and/or curricular support in the following areas:
    • College List/preferences
    • Preview Application
    • Personal statement
    • Self-advocacy
    • Financial aid
  • Complete all teacher-assigned Senior Portfolio projects

Share college application experience (all activities below are to be facilitated by high school faculty)

  • Participate in senior meetings
  • Visit 9th-11th grade advisory, homeroom or grade level meetings /li>
  • Host after-school meetings for students needing additional support in college application process

Support College Summit Coordinator (guidance/college counselor)

  • Host college/university representatives
  • Provide support during Parent Nights
  • Create bulletin boards
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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.

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