Fair Opportunity Project
Fair Opportunity Project[1] is a centralized platform of free college admissions and financial aid resources. Luke Heine and Cole Scanlon founded the non-profit organization to improve the likelihood that young people from any background have equal information on the college and financial aid application process.
History
Fair Opportunity Project was founded in April 2016. It was a nation-wide effort to provide free college admissions resources, building off of Luke Heine’s Midwest Information Parity Project, which was sent to 6,000 principals and superintendents in nine states.[2] In 2016, Fair Opportunity Project worked with various college students, high school counselors, and advisors to write a free 70-page college admissions and financial aid guide, including successful college essays, free online videos, scholarship websites, and much more.
In 2018, Fair Opportunity Project launched a free mentorship program, under the guidance of Spencer Wilson and Sam Sokolsky-Tifft. The program provides free one-to-one college advising from local mentors to high school students in Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and California.[3]
In 2020, Robert Lue and Cole Scanlon launched FairOpportunityX, a video course designed to help high school students navigate the U.S. college application and financial aid process.[4]
Growth
Since sending out the first batch of guides to 57,000 public schools, Fair Opportunity Project launched video modules, translated the guide into multiple languages, and won Forbes 30 under 30.[5] Fair Opportunity Project has been featured in Thrillist,[6] the Harvard Ed Magazine,[7] and the Harvard Gazette.[8]
References
- ↑ "Fair Opportunity Project". Fair Opportunity Project. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "Midwest Club Creates Free Admissions Guide for High Schools | News | the Harvard Crimson".
- ↑ "Mentorship — Fair Opportunity Project". Fairopportunityproject.org. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "LabXchange".
- ↑ "Fair Opportunity Project". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ T.M. Brown. "These College Students Are Already Wildly Successful". Thrillist. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ Dorigo, Bobby. "When Students Help Students | Harvard Graduate School of Education". Gse.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "Harvard students develop admissions guide". Harvard Gazette. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
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