Tutoring With Let's Get Ready SAT Prep

During my sophomore year, I decided to get involved with community service to give back to the local community I had come to call my home.

I chose to volunteer with a national organization called Let’s Get Ready. Let’s Get Ready is an SAT and college prep course for high school students all around the nation. Fordham has its own chapter to help the local Bronx kids.

I was a verbal coach and met with the same 8 students for 3 hours every Thursday for ten weeks. The first half of class, I taught my students grammar rules, how to take the SAT, and how to write a proper essay. For the second half of class, I helped my students write their college application essay.

It was a ton of work planning a 3 hour class every week for 10 weeks, but it was absolutely worth it. I spent 6 hours every week making fun lessons and activities that the kids would actually enjoy. At first, the kids hated coming to class. But within three weeks, I was able to get them to admit that they actually had fun in class with me.

By the end of the ten weeks, my class had improved tremendously. They went from being unable to write a grammatically correct sentence to being able to write a grammatically correct essay. I was so ecstatic when some of my students sent me their SAT test scores. Some of my kids improved their verbal score by 250 points. There is no better feeling than knowing you made a difference in someone’s life. I not only helped them to learn something new, but I helped them increase their chances of attending college.

Let’s Get Ready is only one of the amazing tutoring services Fordham has to offer. Other tutoring services can be found in the Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice office.