. -- erica martinez-close, a former college coach at new settlement apartments college access center, and cambel iribuka, a 12th-grader and youth leader at claremont international high school. good to have you all here. well, what support do new york city public high schools provide their students? >> so there are so many amazing college counselors and community-based organizations working inside schools, and they work long hours -- they're there till 6:00 at night, they answer texts at 10:00 p.m. -- but the counselor-to-student ratio is 1 to 250, and only 22% of that time is spent on college access. so, if you've ever gone through the college access process in the last few years, it's not something that a 17- or 18-year-old can really do by themselves. but given those numbers, it means that a lot of first-generation-to-college students don't have the support that they need inside high schools. >> yeah, since they're on their own. >> yeah. >> and unless you have a parent who may have gone through the process, or a sibling, you really are out there on your own. >> yeah, and we see thos