b'OurMessagetOstudentsFUTUREyourtoThis is your year. Your voice, your talent, your skills, and your vision are needed at colleges and universities across the country. We want to help you get there.For more than 30 years, Philadelphia Futures has developed and established proven strategies that make a transformative dierence in the lives of students, enabling them to succeed in college and in life. Philadelphia Futures Step Up to College Guide, with its accompanying resources, aims to oer every high school student and their college-going team the tools they need to gain admission to and graduate from college. Historically, the Step Up to College Guide has been distributed to 42,000 students in Philadelphia, in grades 9-12. In light of the pandemic, we have enhanced our digital resources to ensure students can access the Guidefrom home.the Guideoers a step-by-step approach to becoming college-ready and college-bound. during these unprecedentedtimes, we hope that our suite of Step Up to Collegeresources, including the Guide, the Step Up to College Summer Supplement, and its digital applications including the sutC videos and free mobile app, pave the way for all studentsto have what they need to gain admission to and succeed in college. We are grateful to all those who make the Step Up to College Guide possible, particularly our sponsors and the schools,community-based organizations, and other institutions who utilize this critical college resource in their classroomsand with their students. Your partnership and shared commitment to college access and success is essential to achievingour vision of a city where all students have what they need to succeed in college and thrive in life. thank you.Otis Hackneysara L. Woods Chief education Ocer executive director City of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Futures'