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The core of Let's Get Ready's mission is creating educational equity and equality. Check out the video below to hear from Brook Payner, Chair of LGR’s Board of Directors, and Adam Elbaz, member of LGR’s Associates Council about why [...]

As you know, Let’s Get Ready is embarking on a strategic plan to grow to serve 25K students per year by 2025. Watch the video below to hear from our CEO, our Chief Program Officer, and our Managing Director [...]

Let’s Get Ready’s program is built around our near-peer coaching model, in which current college students serve as paid mentors to younger high school and college students. “I was excited to get to work directly with students, especially [...]

In 2021, Let’s Get Ready launched an ambitious strategic plan with a goal of serving 25,000 students per year by 2025. A critical component of that work is to develop and expand partnerships with high schools, colleges, and other [...]

Earlier this year, an incredibly generous donor invested $500,000 in Let’s Get Ready to help us implement our strategic plans and meet our ambitious goal of growing to serve 25,000 students each year. A longtime supporter of [...]

Let’s Get Ready has served almost 45,000 high school and college students over the past 24 years and many of them have gone on to do incredible things and have pursued careers in education, public service, medicine, [...]

As LGR nears our 25th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that we are growing and will serve 25,000 students per year by 2025! Over the next few weeks, as graduation season approaches, the LGR team is excited to introduce [...]

Let's Get Ready's FY 2021 Annual Report is now available!

During my second year at Colgate University, I got involved with Let’s Get Ready upon a suggestion from a random classmate. Yet, as I look back at my career as a classroom teacher, admission counselor, and college advisor, my [...]

I first joined the Let’s Get Ready team as a Verbal SAT content coach in the Spring of 2019. My undergraduate program had a requirement for volunteer hours and coaching seemed like a way to complete those in an [...]