Let's Get Ready!

Let's Get Ready!
Founded:	1998
Recognition:	Community Impact
Membership:	~40
Executive Board:	{{{Executive board}}}
Category:	Community Service
Website:	http://www.letsgetready.org/
Contact:	lgr.columbia@gmail.com

Let's Get Ready! (LGR) provides free bi-weekly SAT tutoring and college admissions classes to high school students in low income districts. The Columbia and Barnard chapters are part of a national organization that began at Harvard in 1998. The Columbia chapter teaches at the Frederick Douglass Academy while the Barnard chapter teaches at the Goddard Riverside Center.

Services

LGR's goal is to provide low income students with the same information and preparation that wealthier students enjoy when applying to colleges, including:

• SAT tutoring
• College search tips
• Scholarship application tips
• College essay editing
• Mentoring

Coaching

Each Columbia or Barnard student coach picks an SAT subject to tutor, either Math or Verbal (Writing and Critical Reading) or volunteers for weekend office hours outside the normal tutoring sessions. They will teach one roughly two hour class per week in their subject.

New coaches attend mandatory training at the start of the semester where teaching technique and college mentoring are covered. The training usually consists of a single session a few hours long. Coaches are also supplied with a manual that contains a syllabus with full lesson plans and exercises to go over in class, even though coaches are technically not required to follow these lesson plans.

Students

Each coach has about 4-8 students. The students are generally pretty enthusiastic, since all LGR students are there voluntarily and tend to be the types that want to learn.

External Links

• Let's Get Ready national website
• Sonia Reese, Community Impact Director (for more information or to volunteer)
• Interview with two Barnard site volunteers