Last week, BetterGrads returned to Granada High School (Livermore, CA) for College Planning Night and the Freshmen-In-Transition (F.I.T.) program. The presentation team included three of our fabulous mentors - Andrea Olson, Andrea Duwel, and Greg Felter - and me. We spoke about college to bucket-loads of students and parents: nearly 800 over two days. Unlike [...]

BetterGrads will be offering four College 101 panels in January 2010 at San Francisco Bay Area High Schools, including Richmond High School and Oakland Technical High School.

As an exclusive for our blog readers, we’d like to share some of the early findings from the post-presentation surveys from our 7 presentations to over 600 students and parents at Granada High School in Livermore, CA. Four-hundred and ninety-four freshmen responded (of the 570 or so we addressed through the Freshmen In Transition (F.I.T.) program). The remainder of the survey responses came from students who attended our two panel discussions at College Night, which involved 11th graders and their parents.

BetterGrads kick-off mixer on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.

With many exciting recent developments to share, including the first (inter)national BetterGrads team meeting, a presentation to the Rotary Club of Pleasanton North, upcoming presentations at Oakland Tech, initial feedback from GHS, it’s time for another update on BetterGrads!

BetterGrads week in review #1: Community Initiatives meeting and Granada High School College 101 Presentations to over 600 students and parents.

This week, members of our national team and local college student peer advisors will deliver our first series of “College 101″ presentations.

Based on YOUR responses, we’ve compiled the Top-10 in questions about college. With the answers, of course.