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MATCH Corps The mission of the MATCH Corps is clear: success in college and beyond for our students. Most of the students we serve come from low‐income families, are Black or La no, have about a 1 in 20 chance of gradua ng from college, and enter MATCH significantly behind grade level. Each tutor's job is nothing less than to change the arc of his/her students' lives. The MATCH Corps program began in 2004 and is the first of its kind in the na on. The Corps is a group of 90 top recent college graduates who work one‐on‐one with six to eight MATCH High School or Middle School stu‐ dents each day for an en re academic year. Corps members live together in apartments nearby the Middle School and in a dorm on the top floor of the High School. Both schools are award‐winning open‐admission Charter Public High Schools in Boston, MA. This full‐ me service year program is designed to fully close the academic Achievement Gap between minority students and their non‐minority peers, one student at a me. Each Corps member works to guarantee the academic success of MATCH students while building personal rela‐ onships. Corps members also undertake secondary projects such as serving as teaching assistants, and may also coach teams and power extracurricular programs. We also offer an op onal teacher training program called MATCH Teacher Residency. In MTR, Corps members receive addi onal training on the weekends with the aim of becoming unusually effec ve first year teachers in high‐poverty schools. Graduates of MTR go on to teach at some of the most highly regarded charter schools in the country and tend to outperform other rookie teachers in the classroom. The highly‐selec ve MATCH Corps allows idealis c and dedicated young people to invest their me and energy