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.