Access to Achievement Funding Priorities
Programs to be funded by Access to Achievement will meet “best practices” criteria
as demonstrated by the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) .
SMYSP is a five-week summer residential program, established in 1988 at Stanford University, that offers
educational enrichment in the biological and medical
sciences, and college admissions support to
low income high school students from all ethnic groups who have faced
personal adversity.
SMYSP has been evaluated annually since 1988, and of the 500 SMYSP alumni:
- 100% have been from low-income families and communities
- 61% have been from underrepresented ethnic minority groups
(African-American, Latino, or Native American)
- 100% have successfully completed the program
- 97% have been followed for up to 21 years through annual surveys
- 100% have graduated from high school*
- 99% have been admitted to college*
- 84% have graduated from 4-year colleges
(compared to 15% of low-income youth in California)
- 47% attend or have completed medical or graduate school*
(at top-tier universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and U.C. Berkeley)
- 43% are becoming or have become health professionals in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, and mental health.
* of age-eligible alumni
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