02/09/10 - St. Paul Nonprofit Offers College Grads Meaningful Work

02/01/10 - Students Search for Colleges Close to Home

01/25/10 - Admission Possible: Mentoring for a Brighter Future

ABOUT ADMISSION POSSIBLE Admission Possible is a nonprofit organization founded in Minnesota in September of 2000 and dedicated to helping promising, low-income students obtain admission to college. We serve 1,400 students in 19 high schools across six school districts in the Greater Twin Cities.  

• Overall, 98% of the students we assisted have been admitted to college. 

• Nearly 80% of our students who enrolled in college are still working toward their college degree or have graduated.  By comparison, only 7% of all low-income students nationwide earn a college degree by age 24 (Education Trust). 

• Students in our program have shown an average ACT score improvement of 20%! Leading for-profit companies, by comparison, advertise average increases of 12-14%. To learn more about the success of our students and our program, view the Wilder Research evaluation report of Admission Possible.

• Admission Possible’s key outcome measures were verified by external evaluators. The ICF International validation study, sought by Admission Possible to provide a third-party validation of ACT score increases and college admission rates, confirmed the organization’s results of: 22% average ACT score increase and 98% college admission rate for students in the 2008-09 program year.