In transitioning to college, students face many challenges and obstacles during the first year of college Students bring an increasingly diverse set of experiences to campus. In order to develop a deeper understanding of how firstyear student persist in higher education, this study explored what are the perceptions of college freshmen related to academic, degree and career support received by a peer mentor during their first semester. This study also investigated how the six factors including race, high school GPA, gender, campus residency, being a first-generation student, and the gender peer mentor impact the perception of college freshmen as related to academic, degree and career support received. Specifically, the findings indicate what difference does peer mentoring make in academic performance and career development of the first-year students. Since many first-year students are at risk of leaving college in debt and without degree completion causing stress and financial hardship, it is the intention that this study will encourage first year college student success through providing them proper academic, degree and career support. This study employed a descriptive research design. Quantitative data was collected from the College Student Mentoring Scale (Crisp, 2009) survey