The Higher Education Opportunity Program at Rochester Institute of Technology is committed to recruit and enroll as freshmen underrepresented populations that would otherwise be ineligible for admission and to provide access to RIT for eligible transfers. This commitment to financially and academically disenfranchised students stems from a belief in the rightness of access and equity.

The program provides an intensive, integrated and comprehensive academic and personal support to maximize its students opportunity to persist in higher education. This support includes a summer preparatory program, a broad-based tutoring program, a comprehensive counseling component, a case management philosophy, and a whole student approach to delivery of services.

The primary anticipated outcome is that the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Rochester Institute of Technology will be able to continue to provide the access and equity to the disenfranchised population it currently serves and that, though its continued provision of comprehensive services, it will maintain its reputation for graduating its students into professions in which they are underrepresented.