Based on a national survey of young adults ages 22 to 30, Can I Get A Little Advice Here? asks young Americans how much help they received from the high school guidance system when it comes to choosing a college or career or getting financial aid for college. In too many cases, young people tell us, the answer is "not much."

Our research, done for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that six in ten young adults who had gone on to further education gave their high school counseling poor grades for college advice, and nearly half say they felt like "just a face in the crowd." With college costs rising and completion rates sinking in the United States, this raises serious questions about what kind of help young people need, and whether they're getting it.

Can I Get A Little Advice Here? is the second in a series of reports on college completion: what factors influence success and failure, and what kinds of measures might be taken to improve college graduation rates. Click here to check out the first report in this series, "With Their Whole Lives Ahead Of Them." A third report will be released later this year.