At Reach Higher, we know there’s nothing more important than continuing your education past high school, whether at a professional training program, a community college, a four-year college or university, or in the military. So, we’re changing the national conversation. We’re building a college-going movement and we’re here to support students, school counselors, educators, and parents all the way.



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Text messages sent to 236,000+ students enrolled in UpNext

Students across all 50 states participated in 3,000 registered College Signing Day events in 2019

Students reached over the past four years by 3,000 school counselors who attended our Reach Higher Convenings
We are working to ensure that all students, but especially first-generation and underserved students, have the tools they need to get a postsecondary degree. Our programs allow us to support and uplift students, school counselors, and educators.



An initiative of Better Make Room, UpNext is a FREE text-messaging college support tool that gives high school seniors and college students across the country free personalized support on all things college access: college search and application, federal student aid, and even student loan repayment. With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, We can provide UpNext free of charge, making sure that hundreds of thousands of students have the support they need to reach higher and achieve their dreams of going to college.



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Reach Higher Initiative Celebrates 5 Years, College Signing Day
Marching bands, a deejay and a slew of celebs joined Michelle Obama at College Signing Day, an annual event the former First Lady launched while in the White House to celebrate young people and their pursuit of higher education.
Upwards of 8,000 Philadelphia students, educators, parents, elected officials, corporate and community supporters took part …
Michelle Obama surprises 2018 School Counselor of the Year. Watch the video.
Kirsten Perry, newly named 2018 School Counselor of the Year, was sitting in a school office with some students at Lawndale Community Academy in Chicago, waiting for what she thought would be a phone call from the executive director of the American School Counselor Association. When the phone rang and Perry answered, someone else was on the line…
Michelle Obama Celebrates College-Bound Students In Star-Studded College Signing Day 2018
Marching bands, a deejay and a slew of celebs joined Michelle Obama at College Signing Day, an annual event the former First Lady launched while in the White House to celebrate young people and their pursuit of higher education.
Upwards of 8,000 Philadelphia students, educators, parents, elected officials, corporate and community supporters took part …
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Reach Higher and Better Make Room is housed within Common App, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.