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"A lot of the kids we are helping are thinking about going to college and just don't know how to get there," Jackson says. "We try to dispell the myth that college is an ivory tower."
But CHANCE and others who tutor Rindge and Latin students face some tough statistics. About 60 percent of graduating seniors at Rindge go on to four-year colleges, but the school's average combined SAT scores were 47 points below the national average of 906 in 1988.
But for every student CHANCE convinces about Harvard's commitment to the community, there are several others who continue to resent Harvard students.
And CHANCE's officers have started to worry about the problem of exactly who they're helping at Rindge and Latin. They say the students they tutor are already academically motivated, and are looking to go to college. And that limits the program's reach, they add.
In fact, about half of the volunteers come from either Harvard or MIT, says Frank H. White '55, the organization's director. There are between 150 and 200 Harvard undergraduates involved, he says.