The current college completion rate is only 56 percent, and although students drop out for a variety of reasons, research shows that one of the best overall ways to retain students is to help them create support systems and build relationships as early as possible in their college experience. Facebook used to do that for students, but now, with hundreds of millions of users, it's all too easy for undergrads to get lost in the mix of a generic university page that thousands of disconnected individuals like.
In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes in Schools App so much, they're backing it with a $2.1 million investment.
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