VISION: Let's Get Ready envisions a time when students from all backgrounds have the support they need to reach higher education and college students, as a group, realize their tremendous potential to help the next generation step up to college.

MISSION: Let's Get Ready mobilizes, equips, and empowers the movement of students helping students get to college. Through LGR current programs, college student volunteers throughout the Northeast provide intensive SAT and college preparation to first generation college-bound high school students in their communities.

Description and/or History:
MODEL: Let's Get Ready chapters elaborate extensively on a standard after-school program model that includes:

Program Model:

39 hours of SAT preparation:

taught in seminar-style groups with no more than 5 students per volunteer Coach
15 hours of mathematics skill-building
15 hours of verbal skill-building
3 diagnostic real SAT tests
At least 15 hours of college and financial aid tutorials including concentrated work on:

College selection
College applications
Financial aid applications
Scholarships
These activities are commonly supplemented by a mentoring program, college tours, and introductions to careers.

Let's Get Ready began in 1998, when college students from Westchester, New York, sought to strengthen ties and share educational resources within their county. With the help of community leaders, they began to provide free SAT and college preparation in a Mount Vernon church basement. Two founding volunteers, who were attending Harvard College at the time, brought the program to Harvard, where it continues as a Harvard club and a bridge between Harvard and one of Boston's lowest income communities.

In 2000, the College Board granted LGR unique seed funding to replicate Harvard's program on a much wider scale. Through an active board of education, business, and community leaders, LGR has worked since 2000, to solidify and test its program model.

Today, Let's Get Ready is taking a successful program model to scale, using public and private funds to build a movement through which college students realize their ability and responsibility to help the next generation step up to college.

Contact person: Andrea Davila, Director Of Finance And Program Co-ordinator, (646) 808-2764, (email)

Address:

50 Broadway, Suite 806 New York, NY 10004 (See a map)