Matriculate’s mission is to empower high-achieving high school students from low-income backgrounds to make the leap to our nation’s top colleges. Since 2014, Matriculate has provided free, virtual college advising to more than 17,000 high school students across the country. Leveraging technology, Matriculate has trained over 4,500 mission-driven undergraduates to serve as virtual advisors. Over the course of around 18 months, Matriculate high school students work one-on-one with their highly trained, near-peer advisors through a 31-step curriculum to build a balanced list, apply for financial aid, and ultimately enroll in college.
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Our Advising Fellow Candidate Portal is now open for interested volunteers with the program kicking off in March 2025.
https://matriculate.org/apply
Matriculate recruits, selects, and trains undergraduate college students to serve as virtual college advisors to high school students nationwide. Each year, we partner with over 1000 undergraduates to provide high school students with high-quality college advising. Our advisors equip high school students with the tools, resources, and role models they need to enroll in and thrive at colleges that match their aspirations.
Since our model is virtual, we can focus on reaching first-generation college students, underrepresented students of color, and students in rural communities. Additionally, we ensure that our undergraduate college advisors' socioeconomic backgrounds and demographics reflect those of the high school students they mentor. Over the course of a decade, Matriculate has built technology systems that connect Advising Fellows virtually to high school students and families that too often lack access to personalized college advising.
