Is There a House in Which You're Going to Live?

Summer melt is a phenomenon where talented high school students who are on track to go to college at the start of the summer somehow lose their way. Maya and her team have worked on simple, low cost interventions that can help these students get to college their idea. Send the students eight text messages over the summer reminding them of impending deadlines. What we found was a nine per cent increase in college enrolment rates as a result of eight text messages. I mean, that is really profound. Eight text messages is what i send my best friend on any given day. It seems to me that what you did and what happened to you, as actually happens to lots of people all the ti where doors close...