
Started by Michelle Obama while at the White House, #ReachHigher encourages young people to complete their education & own their future 🌟
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ALT A photo of Amani from Common App’s first year walkthrough video in the bottom right corner with the text “Common App walkthrough for first-year students” in the top left corner appearing over blue and green accent boxes. There is a blurred and slightly desaturated picture of the Common App account dashboard screen in the background where you can see menu buttons for college search, direct admissions, financial aid, and help pages.

ALT “Your future is mobile” appears in black text over a teal background. There is an illustration of a laptop below with the Common App mobile app displayed on it. On the left side of the screen the Common App logo is in a box with the following menu options below: Dashboard, My Common Application, My Colleges, College search, Direct admissions, and Financial aid. On the right side of the screen there is a blue box with the text “Good afternoon, Jordan!” and an illustration of a person riding a bike with a hot and balloon and clouds in the background. Below that there is a box that says “Dashboard” with a dropdown menu for “My Common Application” underneath it. A partially filled green bar has small text above it that reads “2/6 sections complete” and the following sections are listed out: Profile, Family, Education, Testing, Activities, and Writing. There are green checks above Profile and Family. There is the beginning of a “My Colleges” tab that can be seen at the bottom of the screen.

ALT A line art illustration of two people riding on a motorized scooter wearing helmets. There is a line art sun and clouds above the people and two trees to their left, with a turquoise to light green gradient framing the image. The bottom of the image reads "Account rollover season" with the Common App logo.

ALT An NCCEP/Gear Up branded graphic with a lime green background and an image of the Golden Gate Bridge and surrounding landscape along the bottom. There is a Common App logo on the top of the screen and text that reads “Find us at Booth 310 and enter our raffle during Tuesday’s networking break at 10:15 am.” “I’m presenting” appears in a blue ribbon in the center of the image with the text “2025 NCCEP/Gear Up Annual Conference Planting Seeds July 13-16 2025 San Fransisco, CA” appears below.

ALT An ASCA branded graphic with a cream banner across the top that reads “Navigate and Innovate July 12-15, 2025 Long Beach California”. In orange and yellow text the words “I’m Exhibiting! See you at #ACSA25!” appear. There is a teal box with “Booth 1446” written inside of it. “Register at ascaconferences.org” appears along the bottom of the image. There is a Common App logo in the bottom right corner with an illustrated compass above it. There is a photo of a student wearing wired earbuds inside of the compass.

ALT “JUNETEENTH” appears in bold white text over a gradient blue to green background. Above is the date “06.19.25” and below it is an illustrated blue and red Juneteenth flag with starburst and a decorative light circle around it. Below the flag are the words "Freedom Day | Emancipation Day" in white and a Reach Higher 10 year anniversary logo.

ALT “Summer 2025 Reading List” appears in bold blue letters over a grid patterned rectangle with a yellow, teal, and dark blue gradient. There is an illustration of the sun in the top left corner that is shining. The following books make up the reading list. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby, We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes, The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King, Oathbound by Tracy Deonn, My Friends by Fredrik Backman, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett, Great Black Hope: A Novel by Rob Franklin, You Didn’t Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney, You Are Here by David Nicholls, Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang, The Fury by Alex Michaelides, and Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney.

ALT “Note to self: End of school year affirmations” appears in bold navy text over a grid background. There are four illustrated multicolored sticky notes under this text that read: “I embrace kindness and help my students do the same”, “my students bring me joy”, :I invite laughter into my office”, and “I will celebrate the end of the school year!”. There is an illustrated pencil peeking out from the lower right corner.

ALT “Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with AANAPISIs (Asian American and Native American Pacific-Islander Serving institutions)” appears over a dark blue gradient background with blue and pink illustrated flowers accenting the bottom of the image. There is a photo of a college campus with palm trees in the bottom right corner that flows into the next slide.

ALT “Background: An AANAPISI is one of eight federally designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI) programs established by Congress in 2007. A college or university with an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10% Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander. Designated to help empower generations of underserved Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students. Source: U.S. Department of Education” over the same background with a pink and white illustrated flower accenting the bottom left of the image.

ALT “Stats: As of May 2025, there are 57 eligible AANAPISIs on Common App’s Explore Page! Though AANAPISI campuses make up only 6% of all U.S. colleges and universities, they enroll nearly half of all AANHPI students in the country.” over the same background with a blue and pink illustrated flowers accenting the bottom corners of the image. There is a photo of a college campus with pink flowering trees in the bottom right corner and two students walking on the sidewalk.













