Gary Linnen

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Mick Unplugged · Gary Linnen: Unlocking the Power of Peer Leaders · 22 Sep 2025 podcast

You know, it's funny.

I had to change mine years ago.

I was sitting on a board and I had my handle from college my entire life.

And, you know, the moment you become a public figure, they're like, hey, remember what you did at Cornell in 1999?

I was like, well, yeah, let me go ahead and get a new handle.

Yeah, so I'm breaking up into two sides.

So for the high school side, the major KPI is like, am I getting individuals into college?

And so we're looking at college enrollment data.

And what we're finding is that for our peer leaders, the individuals that are directly involved

go directly through our program, there's a larger 10% increase.

So 60% of them are actually enrolling in college versus 50%, which is the national average.

And so we're outpacing the national average, but there's still work to be done in that.

So that's one major KPI.

The second one that we're looking at, particularly for participants, is around FAFSA completion.

And so we know that you can apply to all your schools, but if you don't have money,

to be able to get in and sustain it, then you're not going to go.

And so what we found is that schools that partner with us, they have a 26% higher FAFSA completion rate versus others, which unlocks about $100 million more in financial aid for students and or school partners with us on that side.

So those are the two main ones that we look at, enrollment data as well as financial aid data.

completion, if you will.

On the college side, we're looking at retention.

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