At Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, 95% of the students enroll in college. Their graduating seniors have been accepted to a broad selection of schools, including Princeton, Georgetown, and Howard University.

"We're changing the narrative of African American males," says Lionel Allen, Urban Prep Academies' chief academic officer. “We're providing a story that counters what is often told: death, destruction, and failure. A lot of people believe that is the only possibility for black males, that they have no chance to make it. We believe differently.”

Most Urban Prep students are the first in their families to go to college. They come in with misconceptions that as a young black man, they can only make it as either a musician or an athlete, and that they can't succeed in college -- or have never even considered going to college. Urban Prep counters these misconceptions and redefines their students' beliefs on what's possible.