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Over the past eight years, 75% of College Match seniors have been admitted into at least one Top 25 College and 95% have been admitted into at least one Top 50 College. 95% of College Match students graduate from college. (Sadly, the national college graduation rate for low-income students is 16%.)

Eight-year admissions totals for these superb institutions of higher learning follow:

• Wellesley – 131 admissions
• Middlebury – 378 admissions
• Smith – 144 admissions
• Harvard – 31 admissions
• Brown – 65 admissions
• Stanford – 40 admissions
• Yale – 50 admissions
• Swarthmore – 60 admissions
• Bowdoin – 67 admissions
• Cornell – 42 admissions
• Dartmouth – 114 admissions
• Columbia – 33 admissions
• Princeton – 25 admissions
• UPenn – 24 admissions
• Georgetown – 27 admissions
• Pomona – 30 admissions
• Vassar – 123 admissions
• Franklin & Marshall – 164 admissions
• Williams – 29 admissions
• Carleton – 41 admissions
• Bates – 16 dmissions
• Wesleyan – 63 admissions
• Amherst – 41 admissions
• MIT – 11 admissions
• Colby – 22 admissions
• Macalester – 54 admissions
• Claremont McKenna – 45 admissions
• UC-Berkeley – 422 admissions

On May 31st, College Match held our 1st ever Virtual Graduation to applaud and commend the CM Class of 2020!

Our students will attend over 60 colleges across the nation.

Find out where the College Match Class of 2020 will be attending college by hearing it directly from the students! Our CM Counselors also joined the fun and offered words of wisdom throughout the video below.

Our 192 incredible students had BIG decisions to make. 100% of our students were admitted to a 4-year college, with 90% committing a top 50 college and 70% committing to a top 25 college!

This is their first step towards transforming their life. We hope that they each become more bold and undaunted as they prepare to embark on every new adventure. The entire College Match team applauds their hard work, unwavering dedication, and their tremendous achievements now, and in the future.

Relive the memories and be inspired to become greater by pressing “play” on the video below:

Ted Fiske, the former Education Editor of the New York Times wrote to a colleague:

“I’m delighted to hear that you are pursuing the notion of a documentary about College Match. I don’t have to tell you what an amazing program it is. I’ve seen a lot of non-profits working hard to increase college-going rates among disadvantaged young people…. But none have wracked up the record of achievements that College Match produces year after year. It is really quite extraordinary — and richly deserving of the kind of attention that such a documentary would bring.”

After seeing College Match’s 2018 Results, Don Graham, Former Publisher of the Washington Post, said,

“This is amazing. I do not know of a single other group in the country
who has done what you have done. Congratulations.”

Thus far this year, we have had 119 low-income seniors get into Top 25 colleges and 162 get into Top 50 colleges.

Over the past four years, 72% of College Match seniors have been admitted into at least one Top 25 College and 96% have been admitted into at least one Top 50 College. We expect that the numbers below will increase after the Wait List process is complete in May. 94% of College Match students graduate from college.

Four-year admissions totals for these superb institutions of higher learning follow:

• Wellesley – 64 admissions
• Middlebury – 141 admissions
• Smith – 100 admissions
• Harvard – 13 admissions
• Brown – 41 admissions
• Stanford – 14 admissions
• 21 into Yale – 21 admissions
• Swarthmore – 18 admissions
• Bowdoin – 35 admissions
• Cornell – 18 admissions
• Dartmouth – 42 admissions
• Columbia – 17 admissions
• Princeton – 17 admissions
• UPenn – 10 admissions
• Georgetown – 15 admissions
• Pomona – 12 admissions
• Vassar – 64 admissions
• Franklin & Marshall – 73 admissions
• Williams – 16 admissions
• Carleton – 23 admissions
• Bates – 14 dmissions
• Wesleyan – 24 admissions
• Haverford – 7 admissions
• Amherst – 12 admissions
• MIT – 5 admissions
• Colby – 21 admissions
• Hamilton – 12 admissions
• Macalester – 34 admissions
• Claremont McKenna – 11 admissions
• UC-Berkeley – 153 admissions

Over the years, 40 College Match students have won Gates Millennium Scholarships, which cover financial costs for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Only 1,000 Gates Scholarships are awarded each year.

Six College Match students have been accepted into the eight-year Brown University undergraduate and Medical School program, allowing them to enroll in Brown Medical School without taking the MCAT Exam as long as they maintain reasonable grades as a Brown undergraduate. It is among the rarest of all admissions possibilities for high school seniors. The program usually receives 2,300 applicants (almost all from upper-income families) and only accepts 50 students a year. Very few inner-city low-income students are accepted into this program.

Six College Match students have received the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to pursue graduate studies. They share this experience with 10 Fulbright Scholars who have been elected to Congress, 18 who have served as head of state or government, one who has been Secretary General of the United Nations, 43 Nobel Laureates, and 78 Pulitzer Prize winners. Being a Fulbright Scholar is an astounding accomplishment for a low-income minority student from Los Angeles.

Ted Fiske, Former Education Editor of The New York Times and the author of numerous higher education books including the highly-regarded Fiske Guide to Colleges, shares his praise for College Match.

“I don’t have to tell you what an amazing program (College Match) is. I’ve seen a lot of non-profits working hard to increase college-going rates among disadvantaged young people, but none have wracked up the record of achievements that College Match produces year after year. It is really quite extraordinary.”

“If there were a Nobel Prize for college admissions, you’d be a shoo-in.”