Migueyli Rivera and Sarah Alexander, students at Columbia University and Emerson College respectively, are alumni of Let’s Get Ready’s College Access Program and are now serving as Site Directors. In this video, they tell us about how the program contributed to their success, and why they’ve decided to pitch in. We also get to meet [...]
Let's Get Ready is proud to be highlighted in the most recent Hechinger Report for our College Success Program. We know that the innovative work being done through our College Success Program will help decrease inequality in education and offer more opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds and first-generation-to-college students to succeed in graduating [...]
Last year Let's Get Ready was awarded a three-year $225,000 matching grant by the prestigious Alfond Foundation to grow its programming in Waterville, ME. In partnership with the Alfond Youth Center and Colby College, this spring Let's Get Ready provided 70 high school students from low-income backgrounds with critical SAT prep and college admissions counseling. Hosted on the [...]
via Youtube, video by Ogilvy & Mather Transliteration of “Carlos Tifa”, published in El Diario on April 28, 2015. Carlos Tifa, a young Puerto Rican-Dominican from the Bronx, decided to take action when he found out that his high school would not prepare him to get into college. In his search for SAT help [...]
by James Benedict Last summer I joined Let’s Get Ready as a Math Coach at the Lowell, Massachusetts site. I got involved through the Raytheon Internship Program and am extremely happy that I decided to take part in the program. I have seen first-hand that these students are talented and motivated to do well. At [...]
From the New Paltz News: A partnership between SUNY New Paltz and the Newburgh School District through Let’s Get Ready, a nonprofit organization that supports underprivileged high school students, is making free SAT and college preparation programming available to local high school students. “The Let’s Get Ready program is valuable for everyone involved,” said Michael [...]
by Joan Walsh If you’re like me, you want to do volunteer work, but you don’t have the time or the connections to research the type of opportunities where you can do the most good. What makes me different is that my daughter works for Let’s Get Ready, so I started out attending Let’ Get [...]
Let's Get Ready participated in a conversation about the redesigned SAT with The College Board and its partner the Khan Academy to offer world-class SAT preparation to all students for free. Nonprofit organizations from across the U.S. will play an integral role to ensure that students from low-income backgrounds receive access to these free [...]
For Immediate Release Thursday, October 30, 2014 New York NY – Let’s Get Ready announces new and expanded services for our Let’s Get Ready Alumni. Services include: -Near peer mentoring groups at SUNY Stoney Brook University, Westchester Community College, University at Albany and Bronx Community College/Hostos Community College as part of the -CBO Collaborative -Resource [...]
From the New England Real Estate Journal: Boston, MA Let's Get Ready, a groundbreaking organization that has provided free SAT preparation, admissions counseling, and other support services for over 22,000 high school students from historically under-served communities, hosted their 4th annual New England "Join the Movement" Benefit on October 8 at the Boston Harbor [...]