Help Mentor

College Choice Foundation, through the Bateman Scholars Program, assists high-achieving, motivated students from under-resourced, disadvantaged backgrounds. This 12-month program, which provides intensive college-admissions support, serves between 30-50 Scholars each year by building the knowledge, skills, resources, and behaviors required to succeed at college, in careers, and throughout life. CCF guides Scholars and their parents through the challenging college-selection process as they identify their best, most-affordable college fit. We provide computers, test-prep tutors, and test-prep books in addition to covering the costs of testing, score reporting, and application fees. We work closely with our Scholars and their families on their financial-aid applications and cover the associated costs. We facilitate campus visits, which affords our Scholars the opportunity to fully experience the atmosphere of a college campus. It is critical that each Scholar have an assigned mentor, who, in conjunction with members of the Executive Board, will help him/her through the process. Mentoring a Scholar includes meeting with him/her once a week, via Zoom, or in person during the busy months of September-November to work on updating resumes, reviewing and filing applications, discussing essays, and assisting with scholarship applications. Each week, the Program Director will email a list of assignments on which students should be working. Mentors are encouraged to spend time getting to know their students by meeting for coffee or dinner on occasion and usually form a close bond with the students and their parents. A Mentor’s role goes beyond “taskmaster” - your student will often need someone to whom he/she can simply talk. We hope these “big brother/sister” relationships carry on throughout the Scholar’s college years and beyond.

Become a Mentor

If you are interested in being a Mentor, please complete our application form by clicking here. Background checks will need to be run if you are selected to be a mentor.