Slate Magazine Calls College Summit an “Amazingly Successful Enterprise”

On the middle to higher end of the income scale, parents tend to be over-involved “helicopter parents” worrying about their children’s college prospects before they can walk and talk. On the lower end of the income spectrum, many teens could use more college-directed pressure—which their parents, most of whom haven't gone to college, have trouble providing, and which their peers are more likely to mock than endorse. Hubert calls College Summit, an America Forward Coalition member, “an amazingly successful enterprise that steps in to supply for poor kids the intensive prodding that middle- and upper-class families take for granted (and groan about). A recent PBS segment on the program...offers a glimpse of how volunteers help steer these students through the admissions process, not least the essay-writing ordeal. Mothers shouldn't be surprised to learn that it takes plenty of hovering and hounding—but also listening, really hard, to teenagers trying to make sense of lives that are, after all, their own to lead.” For the full article, click here.