. >> as a future m.a.c.yourself and your fellow members to a higher standard. >> it's a program that actually started from students who were upper classmen who said, you know, let us talk to these young kids. they're not going to listen to their teachers but they'll listen to us. >> we didn't listen to our teachers. >> they're not going to listen to their parents. >> tracy williams is a m.a.c. sister scholars adviser. >> i think most people looking at this school from the outside, you know, it's very nicely manicured. it's in a nice neighborhood. >> it's hogwarts. >> it's hogwarts. >> you would imagine if you just got through these doors that everybody's going to be fine. and that's just not true. >> my mind-set was, let's make it cool to be successful, to be academically sound. to do what you're supposed to do and elevate. >> i mean, i remember when i was in school, i did feel sometimes like it wasn't cool to be smart. so i certainly understand that pressure sometimes, especially among black men about, like