Highland Park Admission Possible students cleaned up the grounds of their high school on spring clean-up day May 22, 2008.

ADMISSION POSSIBLE CITED IN NATIONAL REPORT

Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance Commends Evaluation Standards

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Admission Possible is featured in a national report released this month by the U.S. Congress’ Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, based in Washington, DC.  The report, “Early and Often: Designing a Comprehensive System of Financial Aid Information,” provided Admission Possible’s results-oriented evaluation efforts as an example of using evaluation to guide work done on behalf of the organization’s constituency.  Click here to view the full press release.

ABOUT ADMISSION POSSIBLE
Admission Possible is a nonprofit organization founded in September of 2000 and dedicated to helping promising, low-income students obtain admission to college. We serve 1,200 students in 15 public high schools and charter schools in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park.

• Overall, 98% of the students we assisted have been admitted to college.
  
  
• Approximately 80% of our students who enrolled in college are still working toward their college degree or have graduated.  By comparison, only 7% of all low-income students nationwide earn a college degree by age 24 (Education Trust).
  
  
• Students in our program have shown an average ACT score improvement of greater than 18%! Leading for-profit companies, by comparison, advertise average increases of 12-14%. To learn more about the success of our students and our program, view the Wilder Research evaluation report of Admission Possible.