AI Guided College Platform

First-generation and low-income students face disproportionately high college dropout rates, often due to poor guidance when selecting schools. 89% of low income students leave college within 6 years and no degree with $50,000 in debt. As a result of lack of educational opportunity, 60% of the U.S. population lives in poverty and 50% of Black and Brown families struggle to pay rent, find well-paying jobs, and suffer mental and emotional stress due to systemic barriers and inaccessibility of resources to advance through higher education. 

 By utilizing College Thriver's AI-powered platform, underserved students have access to college compatibility scores, predictive acceptance analysis, and targeted essay feedback, which will help them compete in the competitive college admissions landscape. Using our advanced chatbox feature, we combine Language Learning models (LMM) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to provide real-time and precise support to students.  This will greatly reduce the amount of response time needed to support a student and improve overall student satisfaction.

We provide technology solutions to public and private high schools schools and colleges seeking innovative ways to attract GEN Z students and struggle to meet the technological demands of a younger audience. As a result of poverty, the majority of our consumers are Blacks and indigenous students, as well as Hispanics and Asians. These families are unable to afford tutoring or traditional methods of college support. In addition to systemic barriers, these individuals lack adequate educational and financial resources needed to live a fulfilling life. This solution will address their needs because it is free and easily accessible through mobile devices.

A total of 100 years of combined experience is represented by our team in higher education, product development, cyber security, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and investment strategies. As first-generation students and immigrants, we are ideally positioned to win this competition as we have navigated a complex college admissions process and overcame barriers with less technology advancements and resources. As a result of our tenacity, we have been able to develop an intuitive and scalable solution that is viable, intuitive, and scalable. In order to maintain a sustainable future for our community, we have developed our solution in direct response to end user feedback, and recommendations from our community members. 

Currently, we are running an eight-month pilot program with 80 underserved students through UpwardBound of Rollins College and Junior Achievement of Central Florida. While we are still in the pre-revenue phase, we have secured $130,000 in investment funding through angel investors, pitch competitions, grants, and fellowships. We are collecting feedback on the design layout, the end-user journey, and the content necessary to keep users engaged.

We are applying to this challenge because we have been faced with many challenges, including product-market fit, data privacy concerns, intellectual property protection, and creating a sustainable business model that will generate both profit and social impact. In my role as a woman and minority business owner, I am frequently overlooked. My professional and personal experience has taught me that lack of guidance and support during college is a significant problem. In the last 10 years, I have worked in college admissions and provided students with out-of-the-box solutions as they navigate the rigorous admissions process in order to achieve their dream of earning a college degree. As for myself, I have spent seven years pursuing a bachelor's degree and am currently in debt of $120,000. We believe that we are the appropriate partners for this opportunity since creating fair and assessable solutions is the only way to bring economic prosperity to the country.