Our public education system is overwhelmed. The guidance counselor-to-student ratio is 500:1.

Low-income students account for only 3% of enrollees at the country’s most competitive colleges.

Since 2008, there has been a 10% drop in the number of low-income students enrolled in college.

Under-matching occurs when well-qualified candidates do not launch and this sends the message that meritocracy is dead…so why try?

The unfortunate statistics show that low-income students are less likely to enter college and less prepared to succeed in college compared to their high-income peers.

Without a college degree, students from the bottom household income quintile are nearly 3x more likely to remain in the same economic conditions as an adult...

…but with a college degree, those same students are nearly 4x more likely to move upwards into the top income quintile.