A grant by Northstar Education Finance/Total Higher Education helped launch I Make It Happen.org, a website that helps Minnesota students get into college. Minnesota has one of the worst guidance-counselor-to-student ratios in the nation, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The goal of I Make It Happen.org is to reach students in grades seven to nine who otherwise wouldn’t have access to a guidance counselor and educate them about the steps they need to take to get into college. The site includes an online counselor feature that allows students to submit questions to a guidance counselor.

Since its launch in April, the site has received about 14,000 visits and 130 questions from students, states the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Other sponsors of the project include The University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Department of Education.