Since the summer of 2012, uAspire uses Signal Vine to implement a text-based outreach service to students to support their transition from high school to college and throughout their rst year of college. Randomized control trial evaluations completed by Dr. Benjamin Castleman and Dr. Lindsay Page have found: Texting can be used to mitigate “summer melt”: Students who received texts during the summer after high school graduation were statistically signicantly more likely to matriculate in college than those who did not. Information provided via text can enable students to take necessary action: 86% of students reported that the texts prompted them to complete a task they hadn’t yet done, and 85% reported that the texts informed them about something they hadn’t realized they needed to do.

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