College Summit is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the culture around going to college and college enrollment rates in high schools nationwide. It’s particularly focused on schools serving large numbers of low-income and minority students, as well as those who would be first-generation college students. The organization uses Peer Leaders, who are trained high school seniors charged with helping their classmates through the college application process.

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The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college preparatory public charter schools operating since 1998. Established in 2001, KIPP DC currently serves more than 5,200 prekindergarten through 12th-grade students at 16 schools on six campuses in the District of Columbia. The KIPP Through College (KTC) program approach supports its students not only leading up to college, but through college.

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