Mission And Vision

OUR VISION: Let's Get Ready envisions a world where students from all socioeconomic backgrounds have equal access to the support they need to reach higher education.

THE MISSION of Let’s Get Ready is to expand college access for motivated, low-income high school students by providing FREE SAT preparation and college admission counseling.

Let’s Get Ready accomplishes this mission by enlisting college student volunteers who serve as Coaches in the program providing not only SAT instruction, but the inspiration, enthusiasm and confidence to go to college as well. Utilizing college students as the organization’s backbone enables Let’s Get Ready to provide our high school participants with the mentoring power of college student volunteers as well as invaluable help with the entire college application process.

OUR MODEL: Let's Get Ready's local programs throughout the northeast operate within a cost-effective, results-driven, scalable program model that includes:

39 hours of SAT preparation:

• 15 hours of math skill-building
• 15 hours of verbal skill-building
• 3 practice SAT tests
• Taught in seminar-style groups with no more than 5 students per volunteer Coach

At least 15 hours of college choice and application guidance on:

• College research, selection and visits
• Essay writing
• Financial aid applications
• Scholarship opportunity research and applications
• Career exploration
• One-on-one mentoring with adults, young professionals and college role models