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Recognizing and congratulating Drexel University Senior Christopher Gray for serving as an exemplary role model of entrepreneurship, and on the business success of his software application Scholly, designed to improve access to scholarship support for aspiring college students in Philadelphia and beyond.
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WHEREAS, According to National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), high school graduation peaked to 3.43 million students in 2010, declining slightly through 2014-15, but is expected to rise again to over 3.4 million by 2017; and
WHEREAS, Almost 21 million students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in 2011, and the US Department of Education expects that the total number of college students will increase to 24 million through 2021; and
WHEREAS, According to NACAC, only 54 percent of high school graduates from the lowest income quintile enrolled in college in 2011, while African American and Hispanic heritage students made up almost 35 percent of the college aged-population, they represented on about 29 percent of post-secondary education enrollees; and
WHEREAS, College funding concerns are a reality for most college bound students and their families, while some academic funding is based upon academic performance or outstanding athletic achievements, many scholarship, grant, and loan programs have an income based component and are critical to making college more accessible to low income students who could not otherwise afford to attend college; and
WHEREAS, Matching the unique characteristics, strengths and financial need of individual students to available scholarship and financial aid programs can be complex and overwhelming, some on-line and published sources offer free information to students on financial aid sources, many national scholarship databases are licensed only to institutions, while other scholarship search software programs are costly; and
WHEREAS, Although Christopher Gray wa...
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