Bringing Colleges to Us

Did you know that over 51% of students that enter college do not finish? I wonder how many enrolled in a school that did not match their needs or interests only because a friend, parent or sibling attended. I have not read any surveys on why students are dropping out at such an alarming rate. Choosing a college may be like purchasing an SUV. Test driving a new, shiny SUV is like touring a beautiful college campus. Like the SUV, America's Top 100 Colleges were marketed to us to fit our lifestyle. However most of us did not anticipate the cost of getting to future destinations.

Financial Planning Required - Over 200,000 students who wanted to go did not apply to a 4 year school last year because they did not have the funds. At the same time, students who completed 4 years graduated with an average of $20,000 in debt. So let's invite financial planners, lenders and coaches to our event to help these college-bound students, put together a viable 4 year plan so they can pursue their education and ideally leave college with minimal debt and a job opportunity!

Necessity is the mother of invention. Thank you to engineers and visionaries who invented the Internet, live chat, blogs, streaming video,rss, and Google. We will use these 21st century tools to create a 'green" way for students, parents and faculty to tour many of the 4,500 colleges in the U.S. With these tools in our belt let's invite colleges to an on-line event where they can set up a booth to show their wares, chat with hundreds of remarkably ambitious students to identify candidates for future classes.

It is my vision that working together, parents, schools, businesses and foundations can attract many great yet little known colleges that are looking for our students to fill out their classes. We create the environment, then let the students investigate. One important measure of our success will be the number of students accepted by schools discovered at our Green College Tour event.