Let's Get Ready (organization)
Let's Get Ready is a non-profit organization that provides low-income high school students with free SAT preparation, admissions counseling and other support services needed to gain admission to and graduate from college. Programs are based at colleges, staffed by college student volunteers. Let's Get Ready is the largest network of student-run college access programs in the U.S., serving approximately 2,500 U.S. high school students per year. History Started in 1998 by a group of college-age students in Westchester, NY the organization grew from a local program to Harvard University. In 2000, the College Board gave LGR money to replicate their program in NYC schools. In 2007, Goldman Sachs gave the New England LGR programs $400,000 to help expand programs. This money accounted for one-third of the budget for these programs. , LGR ran 40 programs throughout the Northeast. The program has a partnership with Teach for America. It has expanded to serve teenagers from north-central Maine at Colby College to Pennsylvania at Temple University. The Let's Get Ready Model LGR runs afterschool programs that prepare students for college and tutor them for the SATs. The course is open to high school juniors and seniors (grade 11 - 12 in USA).