EMERGE helps high-achieving students from low-income communities apply to leading US colleges, succeed in their studies, and graduate.
What we built
- Replaced separate older systems with one platform
- Ongoing partnership: new features, migrations, and staff training
Three apps sharing student records
- Admin portal — staff manage students, review applications, and run day-to-day operations
- Recruitment portal — applicants apply, attend info sessions, and complete intake tasks
- Mobile app — accepted scholars manage college applications, tasks, and events
From applicant to graduate
Prospect applicant → finalist → accepted scholar → matriculant → college scholar → alumni.
One student record carries profile, documents, cohort assignment, and history from first contact through post-college reporting.
Recruitment and college access
- Three-phase staff evaluation: application review (scoring, flags), interviews, income verification
- College catalog with 50+ data points per school
- Student journey: favorites → SIAT list → applications → acceptance → commitment → matriculation checklist (30+ transition fields)
Operations and automation
- Milestone-based tasks that auto-create and auto-complete from forms, events, and application status changes
- Events with rosters, registration, QR check-in, and attendance tracking
- Broadcasts, in-app messaging, and a unified communication timeline (email, calls, SMS, notes, meetings)
- Staff cases and emergency fund requests with approval workflows
- Analytics dashboards for recruitment, applications, matriculation, and task completion
- Bulk CSV import/export and data migration from legacy systems
Integrations
Typeform (application and survey intake), Zoom/RingCentral (calls and SMS logging), Microsoft Graph (transactional email), Google FCM (mobile push), Firebase (messaging), National Student Clearinghouse (degree verification).
