As a practical matter, virtually all of the nation's 10,000,000 college students, regardless of their major, are eligible to participate, since these courses are offered as "electives," and since undergraduates, generally, must take elective courses to get a degree.

This has two important benefits:

1. With 10,000,000 college students among the 50 states, the potential supply of tutors is national in scope and so vast in sheer numbers as to be virtually inexhaustible, not only now, but as far into the future as anyone can foresee.
   
   For this reason, the National Education Project is able to match the nation's illiteracy problem on its own scale.
   
   
2. These courses have a fundamental practicality for undergraduates, since the tutoring that is required by the course is not an "extracurricular" activity that conflicts with the undergraduate's obligation to study; rather, the tutoring is done as part of a three-credit elective course that actually moves the undergraduate toward a college degree.
   
   

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