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Review for Let's Get Ready, Inc., New York, NY, USA

Rating: 5 stars  

Let's Get Ready is an incredible organization that is dedicated to not only teaching youth the skills they need to persevere in the college application process, but empowering them to take the skills and apply them throughout their education and their lives. As a four time site director, five year volunteer, verbal coach, and sometime office intern, I have worked with many students who, through the help of LGR, changed their opinion from "I can't go to college" to "I can go to college--and succeed". Not only do the students benefit from the program, which provides five-to-one tutoring and mentoring by current college students, but parents benefit as well; the program offers financial aid information to parents, and allows them to help their children navigate the tricky process, even if they've never been through it themselves. Coaches, too, are able to complete an exercise in mentorship, hone their teaching skills, and learn firsthand about the gaps in our education system and the need for change. As a site director, I have never been more proud than when a former student, who had gotten into a college in Connecticut, called me the summer before she began to ask me where to buy her books so she could be ahead of the class. This particular student had sacrificed much to get into school against her parents' wishes, and was set and ready to go--but still felt comfortable enough to reach out to her LGR family for support. That's what LGR is all about.

I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...

my experience as a Site Director. I have had programs in which students increased their SAT scores overall by 147 and 153 points; and most importantly where students learned about the college process and gained the confidence necessary to apply and succeed in college.

If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...

change around the curriculum a bit to make it focus more on college success than SAT scores--but I do recognize that that would include increasing the amount of time/week a student spent in class, thus further shrinking the student pool.

Would you volunteer for this group again?

Definitely

For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?

Life-changing

Did the organization use your time wisely?

Very Well

Would you recommend this group to a friend?

Definitely

When was your last experience with this nonprofit?

2011

Role:  Volunteer & Site director, verbal coach, volunteer, intern...