Get Schooled

Get Schooled is America’s only free, all-digital, college and first job advisor. Our mission is to provide youth-friendly, culturally-relevant, research-based, engaging educational content and 1:1 personalized support to youth across America - with a particular focus on supporting Black, Brown, low-income and first-gen-to-college students along three journeys. These journeys include: 1) preparing them to continue their education after high school; 2) persisting during the first year of higher-ed; and 3) finding and succeeding in their first jobs and early careers. Get Schooled has helped millions of youth along their journeys since our founding thirteen years ago by Paramount, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the 2022-23 school year GS: reached 38M+ youth via web, social and partnerships; had 9.8M engagements with our content and campaigns; 140K+ followers on social; 50K+ jobs searches; 46K youth registered; 25K+ youth received personalized, 1-on-1 advising support; 7.5K educators in our network; 2.7K college application essays reviewed; and 700 resumes reviewed.

We share our content via our website, social (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.,) Kahoot!, campaigns and text, and through educators, counselors, schools and nonprofit partners. We’re also experts at building culturally-relevant, youth-focused campaigns that promote healthy behaviors and actions, examples of which include Get Banked Philly, We Belong in College Campaign and Future Focused Texas, among many others. We also engage with educators and counselors to provide them with content to share with their students.

We also provide personalized support including: college application essay reviews, scholarship essay reviews, FAFSA completion support, resume reviews and on-demand, personalized postsecondary + first job advising via text and email.

In our June, 2023 GS student survey, we achieved the following results:

• 100% said our job resources, content, search tool and support are helpful
• 98% said our text advisors are helpful
• 98% said we were helpful in navigating the financial aid process
• 97% said we were helpful during the college application process
• 93% said we were supportive of them on their journey to college
• 86% said we helped them get through the first year of college
• 83% said we encouraged and gave them more confidence that they belonged in college
• 74% are BIPOC; 63% have financial need; 57% are first-gen-to-college; and 26% are LGBTQIA+

We're a Black/Brown-led organization - our Executive Director and Board Chair are both Black men, and the substantial majority of our fifteen staff members (69%) and thirteen board members (79%) are Black, Brown and first-gen grads. Our national Youth Advisory Council is also 100% Black & Brown students.

Our ED was recently interviewed by Comcast Newsmakers; and GS’ 2022/23 Impact Report can be found here.

GS’ budget is approximately $2.4M per year. We enjoy clean audits every year, and have incredibly high employee satisfaction rates driven by our healthy organizational culture (including our Life/Work Balance and Wealth Building policies).