Coming November 8, 2025
Mountain View, CA
What FirstPath Does
FirstPath helps students:
- Filter schools by affordability, housing, technology access, transportation, and textbooks.
- Use a mobile-first, low-data platform that works anywhere.
- Explore Ivy League, HBCUs, community colleges, and research universities: through the lens of equity and opportunity.
Why It Matters
- 50%+ of first-generation college students in the U.S. identify as Hispanic/Latino, Black, or other underrepresented groups.
- Students face challenges like financial anxiety, limited parental guidance, and unreliable internet.
- FirstPath closes these gaps by delivering accessible information and peer stories that inspire resilience and upward mobility.
Real Student Journeys
“FirstPath isn’t just a search: it’s a story of self-discovery and possibility.”
The campaign’s theme, One Search. Infinite Futures, highlights signature stories from first-generation students who overcame barriers and achieved their educational goals.
Credits:
Adobe Stock Photos: (A stone arch hallway at a university with unidentified female in the distance) (Clare College, University of Cambridge) (Happy beautiful student goes back to school) (Happy successful african student, wearing glasses and with a black backpack, standing on the steps and smiling) (High School Tutor Giving Male Student One To One Tuition At Desk) (Woman using smartphone in office kitchen) (Young brazillian woman with thick curly hair sitting on hostel bunk bed using phone) (Young hispanic female graduate at her graduation)